Investigations of Au on Si~001! have suggested that room-temperature deposition of Au on a clean Si surface results in an interfacial reaction and the formation of a gold-silicide. However, these investigations typically lack direct information about the surface morphology or the exact structure at the interface. Utilizing the capabilities of a surface chemical analysis system attached to a Hit...

In this study, MHz pulse repetition rate femtosecond laser-irradiated gold-coated silicon surfaces under ambient condition were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The radiation fluence used was 0.5 J/cm2 at a pulse repetition rate of 25 MHz with 1 ms interactio...

The compositions and molecular structures of anhydrous and hydrated cements are established by using advanced solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy methods to distinguish among different molecular species and changes that occur as a result of cement hydration and setting. One- and two-dimensional (2D) solid-state (29)Si and (27)Al magic-angle spinning NMR methodologies, incl...

Angle-dependent x-ray absorption near-edge structure ~XANES! and scanning photoelectron microscopy measurements were performed to differentiate local electronic structures at the tips and sidewalls of highly aligned ZnO nanorods. The overall intensity of the O K-edge XANES spectra is greatly enhanced for small photon incident angles. In contrast, the overall intensity of the Zn K-edge XANES is ...

A novel form of spliceosome, containing the minor snRNPs U11 and U12, splices a class of pre-mRNA introns with non-consensus splice sites. This unexpected spliceosome diversity has interesting implications for the evolution and expression of eukaryotic genes.

Data from Kα resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) have been used to extract electronic structure information, i.e., the covalency of metal-ligand bonds, for four iron complexes using an experimentally based theoretical model. Kα RIXS involves resonant 1s→3d excitation and detection of the 2p→1s (Kα) emission. This two-photon process reaches similar final states as single-photon L-edge (2p...

S1. Procedure for determining SiO2 thickness using XPS Figures S1 and S2 show typical XPS data for SiO2 films prepared as described in the main text. The Si 2p data (Fig. S2a) show a peak from the substrate, which is partially resolved into a 2p1/2 and 2p3/2 spin-orbit doublet, and a peak from SiO2, which is too broad to resolve. Other features, due to SiOx (x<2) at the interface, are not readi...

Hierarchical macro-mesoporous silica materials co-incorporated with Cr and Ti 12 (MM-Si-Cr-Ti) were directly synthesized by adopting close-packed array of polystyrene 13 microsphere as hard template for macropore through a simple soaking-calcination way, where 14 the Si/Ti ratio was fixed at 200 and Si/Cr ratio varied from 200-10. Ti specie is highly dispersed 15 in the porous matrix and Cr spe...

Aerosol deposition- (AD) derived barium titanate (BTO) micropatterns are etched via SF6/O2/Ar plasmas using inductively coupled plasma (ICP) etching technology. The reaction mechanisms of the sulfur hexafluoride on BTO thin films and the effects of annealing treatment are verified through X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis, which confirms the accumulation of reaction products on th...

X-ray reflectometry (XRR) and photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements (core levels valence bands) were made of Cu thin films that prepared coated by capping Ta layers with different thicknesses (5, 10, 15, 20, 30 Å), are presented. The XRR XPS 4f-spectra revealed a complete oxidation the protective layer up to thickness 10 Å. From 15 Å, pure Ta-metal line appeared in 4f-spectrum, contribu...