Nanoscience

• Overview
• Nanolithography with micelles
• Ordered, metallic nanoislands

STM / AFM investigations

• Overview
• Instrumentation
• Projects

Laser ablation

• Principle
• Our PLD system
• UHV chamber: thin metal films and metallic multilayers
• Projects
• Polymer chamber
• HV chamber

Metastable phases

• Boundary reactions
      Amourphous phases
      Forced dissolution
• Quenched condensation
      Amorphous phases
      nanokristalline phases

Properties of oxid films

• Tungsten oxid

Ion implantation

• Overview
• Iradiation at low energies
• Iradiation at intermediate energies

High temperature superconductors

• Preparation of HTSL films
• Structural properties of HTSL films
• Patterning of'weak links'
• Transport properties : R(T,H), jc(T,H,alpha), S(T)
• Vortex dynamics: measurement of dc magnetisation by means of a SQUID

Deposition of h-BN an c-BN films by the dual beam technique