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AUTHOR
Karl-heinz Meiwes-broer
Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of WO3 and CdWO4
Abstract Infrared reflection and Raman spectroscopy have been applied to study the vibrational modes of tungsten trioxide (WO 3 ) and cadmium tungstate (CdWO 4 ). Kramers–Kronig relations are employed to yield the refractive index as well as TO and LO functions of these materials at frequencies from 50 to 1200 cm −1 . The symmetry of the vibrations of CdWO 4 is reported.
Reflection high energy electron diffraction as a tool in cluster deposition experiments
Reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) is used to study the structure and orientation of mass-filtered iron clusters upon deposition ontoW(110). The present setup enables in situ investigations during deposition and thermal annealing. Particles as small as 2 nm at low density on the surface can be studied. The experiments reveal that larger particles with a diameter of about 13 nm are randomly oriented on the substrate with a preferred tendency to rest on their surface facets. Thermal annealing leads to a partial realignment and a significant flattening of the particles. In contrast 2 nm particles are found to align spontaneously in an epitaxial manner on W(110). Thermodynamic …
Size-dependent alignment of Fe nanoparticles upon deposition onto W(110)
Using in situ electron diffraction we study the orientation of mass-selected iron nanoparticles upon deposition onto single crystalline W(110) at room temperature. It is found that particles with a diameter below about 4 nm and a kinetic energy $\ensuremath{\le}0.1$ electron volt per atom spontaneously align with respect to the substrate. Larger particles preferentially rest with their (001) and (110) facets parallel to the surface, but do not show further alignment. The data may hint at thermally activated dislocation motions upon the impact on the substrate which are responsible for the observed orientation below 4 nm. By this uniformly oriented monodisperse nanostructures can be prepared…
Ex situ investigations of MOCVD-grown gallium nitride nanowires using reflection high energy electron diffraction
Vertically oriented nanowires (NWs) of single-crystalline wurtzite GaN have been fabricated on sapphire substrates, via metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). We present ex situ investigations on orientation and structure of grown GaN nanowires on GaN(0001) surface using reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED). Both ordered and randomly oriented GaN crystalline structures have been detected.
IR Spectroscopy of Monoclinic Tungsten Oxide
Stoichiometric tungsten trioxide WO3 has several polimorphous crystal phases [1] in the temperature region from 4 up to 1200K. These WO3 phases have more or less distorted ReO3 — type crystal structures, and ReO3 lattice topology is identical to topology of the BO3 sublattice of perovskite ABO3.