Second-layer crystalline phase of helium films on graphite

Coefficients of the second viscosity in thin liquid-helium films.

Third harmonic generation in graphene and few-layer graphite films

Nardeep Kumar,1 Jatinder Kumar,1 Chris Gerstenkorn,1 Rui Wang,1,2 Hsin-Ying Chiu,1 Arthur L. Smirl,2 and Hui Zhao1,* 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA 2Laboratory for Photonics and Quantum Electronics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA (Received 5 November 2012; revised manuscript received 13 February 2013; published 18 March 2013)

Crystalline graphite from an organometallic solution-phase reaction.

We report a chemical method by which graphitic carbon is prepared at reaction temperatures as low as 110 degrees C from readily available molecular reagents. This process requires no forcing conditions such as high pressures, intense light, or electrical discharge but is a simple, catalytic organometallic reaction. The carbon forms in a variety of morphologies including graphene sheets and nano...

Atomic/molecular layer deposition: a direct gas-phase route to crystalline metal-organic framework thin films.

Atomic/molecular layer deposition offers us an elegant way of fabricating crystalline copper(ii)terephthalate metal-organic framework (MOF) thin films on various substrate surfaces. The films are grown from two gaseous precursors with a digital atomic/molecular level control for the film thickness under relatively mild conditions in a simple and fast one-step process.

Probing the helium-graphite interaction

Two separate lines of investigation have recently converged to produce a highly detailed picture of the behavior of helium atoms physisorbed on graphite basal plane surfaces. Atomic beam scattering experiments on single crystals have yielded accurate values for the binding energies of several· states for both 4He and 'He, as well as matrix elements of the largest Fourier component of the period...