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Publications

Peer-reviewed Scientific Publications on Clusters

 

R. Reichel, J. G. Partridge, F. Natali, T. Matthewson, S. A. Brown, A. Lassesson, D. M. A. Mackenzie, A. Ayesh, K. C. Tee, A. Awasthi and S. C. Hendy, 'From the adhesion of atomic clusters to the fabrication of nanodevices', Applied Physics Letters 89, 213105 (2006).

 

A. Awasthi, S. C. Hendy, P. Zoontjens, and S. A. Brown, 'Re-entrant Adhesion Behaviour in Nanocluster Deposition', Phys. Rev. Lett 97, 186103 (2006).

 

J. G. Partridge, D. M. A. Mackenzie, R. Reichel and S. A. Brown, 'Electrically conducting Bi cluster-assembled wires formed using SiN nanostencils' Microelectronic Engineering 83, 1460-1463 (2006).

 

A. D. F. Dunbar, J. Partridge, M. Schulze and S. A. Brown, 'Morphological differences between Bi, Ag and Sb nano-particles and how they affect the percolation of current through nano-particle networks', Eur. Phys. J. D. 39, 415 (2006).

 

J. G. Partridge, R. Reichel, A. Ayesh, D. M. A. Mackenzie and S. A. Brown, 'Nanotechnology Through Self-Assembly of Clusters'. Physica Status Solidi-A 203, 1217 (2006).

 

S. A. Scott and S. A. Brown, '3-D Growth characteristics of Antimony Aggregates on Graphite', Eur. Phys. J. D 39, 433 (2006)

 

S. A. Scott, M. V. Kral and S. A. Brown, 'Bi on Graphite: Morphology and Growth Characteristics of Star Shaped Dendrites', Phys. Rev. B 73, 205424 (2006).

 

S. A. Scott, M. V. Kral and S. A. Brown, 'Self-assembly of oriented Bi nanorods at highly ordered pyrolitic graphite step-edges', Phys. Rev. B 72, 205423 (2005).

 

S. A. Scott, M. V. Kral and S. A. Brown, 'Growth of nanorods and mesoscale stars prior to an orientation transition in bismuth thin films', Applied Surface Science 252, 5563 (2006).

 

S. A. Scott, M. V. Kral and S. A. Brown 'A crystallographic orientation transition and early stage growth characteristics of thin bismuth films on graphite', Surf. Sci. 587, 175 (2005).

 

K.J. Stevens, K.S. Cheong, D.M. Knowles, N.J. Laycock, A. Ayesh, J. Partridge, S.A. Brown and S.C. Hendy, 'Electron microscopy of Bismuth building blocks for self-assembled nanowires', Current Applied Physics 6, 453 (2006).

 

A. Ayesh, J. G. Partridge, R. Reichel, A. D. F. Dunbar, S. A. Brown, 'Assembly of Bi clusters into Nanowires using etched V-grooves as templates', p324 in the Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, IEEE Press (2005).

 

M. Kaufmann, A Wurl, J. G. Partridge and S. A. Brown, 'Structure of Unsupported Antimony Nanoclusters', Eur. Phys. J. D 34, 29 (2005).

 

R. Reichel, J. G. Partridge, A. D. F. Dunbar, S. A. Brown, 'Construction and Application of a UHV Compatible Cluster Deposition System', Journal of Nanoparticle Research 8, 405 (2006).

 

J. G. Partridge, S. A. Brown, C. Seigert, R. Neilsen, A. D. F . Dunbar and R. J. Blaikie, 'Templated cluster assembly for production of metallic nanowires in passivated silicon V-grooves'. Microelectronic Engineering 73-74, 583 (2004).

 

J. G. Partridge, S. A. Brown, A. D. F. Dunbar, M. Kaufmann, S. Scott, M. Schulze, R. Reichel, C. Seigert and R. Blaikie, 'Template assembled antimony cluster mesowires and nanowires', Nanotechnology 15, 1382 (2004).

 

J. Partridge, S. Scott, A. Dunbar, M. Schulze, S. A. Brown, A. Wurl, and R. Blaikie, 'Formation of electrically conducting mesoscale wires through self-assembly of atomic clusters', Presented at Microtechnologies for the New Millenium 2003, 19th-21st May 2003 (Gran Canaria, Spain).  IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 3, 61 (2004).

 

S. Hendy, S. A. Brown and M. Hyslop, 'On the coalescence of nanoscale metal clusters', Phys. Rev. B. (Rapid Communications) 68, 241403(R) (2003).

 

A. D. F. Dunbar, J. Partridge, M. Schulze and S. A. Brown, 'Measurement of the conductivity exponent in random percolating networks of nanoscale bismuth clusters', presented at The 2004 International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems (ICMENS), Banff, Alberta (2003). Proceedings of ICMENS conference, pp. 350-356 (2003). 

 

S. A. Brown, J. Schmelzer jr, M. Schulze, S. Gourley, A. Dunbar, J. Partridge, B. Ramsay, A. Wurl, M. Hyslop and R. Blaikie, 'Formation Of Nanowires At The Percolation Threshold In Rectangular 2D Systems'  Proc. SPIE 5055 (2003), p. 189-203, Smart Structures and Materials 2003: Smart Electronics, MEMS, BioMEMS, and Nanotechnology; Vijay K. Varadan, Laszlo B. Kish; Eds.

 

M. Schulze, S. Gourley, S. A. Brown, A. Dunbar, J. Partridge, R. J. Blaikie, 'Electrical Measurements of Nanoscale Bismuth Cluster Films', Eur. Phys. J. D. 24, 291 (2003).

 

J. Schmelzer jr, S. A. Brown, A. Wurl, M. Hyslop, and R. J. Blaikie, 'Finite-Size Effects in the Conductivity of Cluster Assembled Nanostructures', Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 226802 (2002).

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