Advances in Metal and Semiconductor Clusters

Metal and semiconductor clusters have been proposed as precursors for materials or as actual materials since the earliest days of cluster research. This title focuses on the properties of clusters which determine their potential applications as new materials.

Inhalt
List of Contributors. Preface. Preparation and properties of INAS and INP nanocrystals. Magnetization reversal in nanoparticles. Electron nanodiffraction and stem imaging of nanoparticles and nanotubes. Synthesis and characterisation of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles. Endohedral metallofullerenes. Endohedral metallofullerenes: structures and electronic properties. Synthesis and properties of encapsulated and intercalated inorganic fullerene-like structures. AB initio calculations on met-cars: a comparison on different levels of theory on model compounds. Structure and mechanical failure in nanophase silicon nitride: large-scale molecular dynamics simulations on parallel computers. Probing the electronic structure of transition metal clusters from molecular to bulk-like using photoelectron spectroscopy. Optical investigators of surfaces and interfaces of metal clusters. Index.