Review of transition-metal diboride thin films

Pulsed Laser Deposition of Epitaxial Titanium Diboride Thin Films

Epitaxial titanium diboride thin films have been deposited on sapphire substrates by Pulsed Laser Ablation technique. Structural properties of the films have been studied during the growth by Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED) and ex-situ by means of X-ray diffraction techniques; both kinds of measurements indicate a good crystallographic orientation of the TiB 2 film both in p...

Phase Formation of Nanolaminated Transition Metal Carbide Thin Films

Research on inherently nanolaminated transition metal carbides is inspired by their unique properties combining metals and ceramics, such as higher damage tolerance, better machinability and lower brittleness compared to the binary counterparts, yet retaining the metallic conductivity. The interesting properties are related to their laminated structure, composed of transition-metal carbide laye...

Experimental evidence for epitaxial silicene on diboride thin films.

As the Si counterpart of graphene, silicene may be defined as an at least partially sp2-hybridized, atom-thick honeycomb layer of Si that possesses π-electronic bands. Here we show that two-dimensional, epitaxial silicene forms through surface segregation on zirconium diboride thin films grown on Si wafers. A particular buckling of silicene induced by the epitaxial relationship with the diborid...

Transition metal carbide nanocomposite and amorphous thin films

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Metal-to-insulator transition in sputter deposited 3NiÕAl thin films