PHONON-INDUCED ANISOTROPIC DISPERSION FORCES ON A METALLIC SUBSTRATE

Nano LIFE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 1240001 ◽  
Author(s):  
JE-LUEN LI ◽  
HANNES C. SCHNIEPP ◽  
ILHAN A. AKSAY ◽  
ROBERTO CAR
Keyword(s):  
Dielectric Response ◽  
Orientational Order ◽  
Metallic Substrate ◽  
Numerical Calculations ◽  
Dispersion Forces ◽  
Cetyltrimethylammonium Chloride ◽  
Surfactant Micelles ◽  
Crystalline Substrate ◽  
Ionic Contribution ◽  
Anisotropic Dispersion

Surfactant micelles (cetyltrimethylammonium chloride) adsorbed on Au(111) exhibit orientational order dictated by the gold crystal axes. To explain this phenomenon, we take into account the ionic contribution to the dielectric response of the metal. Since the motion of an ion inside the metallic lattice is restricted by its neighbors in an anisotropic way, the total dielectric response of the metal acquires directional dependence. A crystalline substrate is thus able to generate both torque and attraction on geometrically asymmetric objects. Numerical calculations show that the resulting anisotropic van der Waals force is indeed capable of orienting rod-like dielectric micelles on a Au(111) surface.

Anisotropic dispersion forces in methane mixtures

1989 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 853-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.W. Fowler ◽  
P. Lazzeretti ◽  
R. Zanasi
Keyword(s):  
Dispersion Forces ◽  
Anisotropic Dispersion

Tip-Induced Orientational Order of Surfactant Micelles on Gold

Langmuir ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 626-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannes C. Schniepp ◽  
Dudley A. Saville ◽  
Ilhan A. Aksay
Keyword(s):  
Orientational Order ◽  
Surfactant Micelles

CALCULATION OF THE PRESSURE BROADENING OF ROTATIONAL RAMAN LINES DUE TO MULTIPOLAR AND DISPERSION INTERACTION

1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 2411-2430 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. G. Gray ◽  
J. Van Kranendonk
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Rotational Quantum Number ◽  
Dispersion Forces ◽  
Line Broadening ◽  
Molecular Constants ◽  
Fourth Degree ◽  
Impact Theory ◽  
Experimental Values ◽  
Anisotropic Dispersion ◽  
The Impact

The impact theory of Raman line broadening is applied to the broadening of the rotational Raman lines of diatomic molecules arising from electric multipole and anisotropic dispersion forces. Expressions are derived for the elastic and inelastic optical cross sections, and these are evaluated for the self-broadening in N2, O2, CO, and CO2, using values of the molecular constants obtained from sources independent of the line-broadening experiments. Included in the calculations are the "time", or "resonant", factors in the optical cross sections, and the resulting time integrals are explicitly evaluated for arbitrary multipole interactions, and anisotropic dispersion forces of second and fourth degree in the orientations. The overall agreement between the theoretical and experimental values of the magnitude of the half-widths is satisfactory, but a discrepancy appears in the variation of the broadening with the rotational quantum number. Possible explanations of this discrepancy are suggested in view of the results on foreign-gas broadening by monatomic gases.

Low-energy point-reflection EM

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 610-611
Author(s):  
J. C. H. Spence ◽  
X. Zhang ◽  
J. M. Zuo ◽  
U. Weierstall ◽  
E. Munro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Voltage ◽  
High Vacuum ◽  
Ultra High Vacuum ◽  
Experimental Point ◽  
Crystalline Substrate ◽  
Point Reflection ◽  
Reflection Geometry ◽  
Optical Analog ◽  
Point Projection ◽  
Atomically Flat

The limited penetration of the low-voltage point-projection microscope (PPM) may be avoided by using the reflection geometry to image clean surfaces in ultra-high vacuum. Figure 1 shows the geometry we are using for experimental point-reflection (PRM) imaging. A nanotip field-emitter at about 100 - 1000 volts is placed above a grounded atomically flat crystalline substrate, which acts as a mirror and anode. Since most of the potential is dropped very close to the tip, trajectories are reasonably straight if the sample is in the far-field of the tip. A resolution of 10 nm is sought initially. The specular divergent RHEED beam then defines a virtual source S' below the surface, resulting in an equivalent arrangement to PPM (or defocused CBED). Shadow images of surface asperities are then expected on the distant detector, out of focus by the tip-to-sample distance. These images can be interpreted as in-line electron holograms and so reconstructed (see X. Zhang et al, these proceedings). Optical analog experiments confirm the absence of foreshortening when the detector is parallel to the surface.

Transmission Electron Microscopic Observations of Al3Li and Al3Ti Precipitation in A Rapidly Solidified Al-3Li-0.2Ti ALLOY

1980 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 336-337
Author(s):  
J. E. O’Neal ◽  
K. K. Sankaran ◽  
S. M. L. Sastry
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Solidification ◽  
Metallic Substrate ◽  
Deformation Characteristics ◽  
Phase Decomposition ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Supersaturated Solid Solutions ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopic ◽  
Rapidly Solidified ◽  
Microstructural Homogeneity

Rapid solidification of a molten, multicomponent alloy against a metallic substrate promotes greater microstructural homogeneity and greater solid solubility of alloying elements than can be achieved by slower-cooling casting methods. The supersaturated solid solutions produced by rapid solidification can be subsequently annealed to precipitate, by controlled phase decomposition, uniform 10-100 nm precipitates or dispersoids. TEM studies were made of the precipitation of metastable Al3Li(δ’) and equilibrium AL3H phases and the deformation characteristics of a rapidly solidified Al-3Li-0.2Ti alloy.

Bond-orientational order in liquid aluminium80-transition metal20 alloys

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 1873-1888 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Maret ◽  
F. Lançon ◽  
L. Billard
Keyword(s):  
Orientational Order ◽  
Bond Orientational Order
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