A group of researchers has proved that franckeite, a mineral belonging to the sulfosalts family, behaves naturally as a two-dimensional material with semiconducting properties and promising applications in next-generation electronic devices, such as photodetectors or solar cells. They have been able to isolate and exfoliate ultrathin flakes of this mineral with methods compatible with large scale manufacturing. Using ALBA's synchrotron light, they could demonstrate the homogeneity of the chemical composition of individual franckeite flakes of a few atomic layers.
These nanoscale magnetic structures have been observed at room temperature in materials compatible with industrial conditions. This breaks an important barrier for their use as nanoscale information carriers in our computers. Results - obtained at the CIRCE beamline - have been published in Nature Nanotechnology.
Researchers from the CSIC and the ALBA Synchrotron have synthetized and characterised this material with nanometre thickness. The work, published in "Advanced Materials", has applications in spintronics.
Using the photoelectron microscope at the CIRCE beamline, researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry "Rocasolano" (CSIC) and the ALBA Synchrotron have determined the magnetic moment of a well defined magnetite surface. Results of this research have been recently published in Physical Review B.
Marc González Cuxart from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) synthesized multiple layers of graphene films and vertical graphene nano-sheets on several substrates by means of low-pressure RF plasma in order to enhance the typical chemical vapor depositions (CVD).
