Duncan Advances in Metal and Semiconductor Clusters

Cluster Materials
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-08-055270-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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Cluster Materials is the fourth volume of the highly successful series Advances in Metal and Semiconductor Clusters. In this volume the focus is on the properties of clusters which determine their potential applications as new materials. Metal and semiconductor clusters have been proposed as precursors for materials or as actual materials since the earliest days of cluster research. In the last few years, a variety of techniques have made it possible to produce clusters in sizes varying from a few atoms up to several thousand atoms. While some measurements are performed in the gas phase on non-isolated clusters, many cluster materials can now be isolated in macroscopic quantities and more convenient studies of their properties become possible.
In this volume the authors focus on measurement of optical, electronic, magnetic, chemical and mechanical properties of clusters or of cluster assemblies. All of these properties must fall into acceptable ranges of behaviour before useful materials composed of clusters can be put into practical applications. As evidenced by the various work described here, the realisation of practical products based on cluster materials seems to be approaching rapidly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duncan, M. A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;ADVANCES IN METAL AND SEMICONDUCTOR CLUSTERS;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Contents;6
5;LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS;8
6;PREFACE;12
7;CHAPTER 1. PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF INAS AND INP NANOCRYSTALS;14
8;CHAPTER 2. MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL IN NANOPARTICLES;48
9;CHAPTER 3. ELECTRON NANODIFFRACTION AND STEM IMAGING OF NANOPARTICLES AND NANOTUBES;80
10;CHAPTER 4. SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF METAL AND SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES;128
11;CHAPTER 5. ENDOHEDRAL METALLOFULLERENES;192
12;CHAPTER 6. ENDOHEDRAL METALLOFULLERENES: STRUCTURES AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;218
13;CHAPTER 7. SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF ENCAPSULATED STRUCTURES AND INTERCALATED INORGANIC FULLERENE-LIKE;240
14;CHAPTER 8. AB INITIO CALCULATIONS ON MET-CARS: A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THEORY ON MODEL COMPOUNDS;266
15;CHAPTER 9. STRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL FAILURE IN NANOPHASE SILICON NITRIDE: LARGE-SCALE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS ON PARALLEL COMPUTERS;276
16;CHAPTER 10. PROBING THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF TRANSITION METAL CLUSTERS FROM MOLECULAR TO BULK-LIKE USING PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;312
17;CHAPTER 11. OPTICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF SURFACES AND INTERFACES OF METAL CLUSTERS;358
18;INDEX;408