Because supramolecular polymerization of emissive p-conjugated molecules depends strongly on p–pstacking interaction, the formation of well-defined one-dimensional nanostructures often results in decrease or only small increase of emission efficiency. This is also true...
AbstractThis paper discusses the use of nanomaterials for the improved performance of time-of-flight particle detectors based on secondary electron emission (SEE). The purpose of the research presented in this paper is to find a nanomaterial that has a higher SEE than gold. In this article, we present a measurement of the SEE properties from 1D (one-dimensional) nanostructures of ZnO and ZnO/GaN (ZnO with GaN coating) composed of a mostly regular pattern of nanotubes grown on a thin Si3N4 substrate. The study was performed with 4.77 meV/u Au beam. We observed an average increase of 2.5 in the SEE properties from the 1D ZnO nanotubes compared to gold.
Peculiar scenarios in the dynamics of BCC and FCC 1D-nanostructures leading to the formation of ultra-short, and sometimes stable, high-amplitude surface modulations are analysed and the means of achieving the desired periodicity are discussed.