Cover: The electric transport properties of low-dimensional systems have attracted tremendous interests due to their applications in microelectronics and novel nanodevices. Ultra-thin metal films on semiconductor substrates have been a playground for the study of electronic transp ...
Cover: Laser-induced plasma and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS): fast spectroscopic images showing the expansion of a plasma induced by a ns-laser pulse on an aluminum target in an argon ambient gas (left) and surface elemental maps of a marble (middle Sr and right M ...
Cover: Intensive investigations have been devoted to synthesizing and characterizing silver nanoparticles in recent years because of their rich optical properties raised by the surface plasmon resonances in the visible spectral range. Branched silver nanostructures have at ...
http://www.springerlink.com/11467 Cover: Multiferroelectric tunnel junctions (MFTJs), consisting of two ferromagnetic (FM)electrodes separated by a nanoscale ferroelectric (FE) barrier, exploiting the capabilityto control FM and FE orders via external electri ...
http://www.springerlink.com/11467 Cover: The recent research on semiconductor quantum dots follows naturally the evolution of semiconductor technology from transistors based on bulk silicon and lasers based on bulk gallium arsenide to ...