Manipulating species using Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) is an important discipline in the field of bottom-up fabrication, which facilitates nano-mechanics and electron dynamics investigations. Previous low temperature ...

Graphene is a nanomaterial that has been the focus of intense research efforts in recent times. Production methods that yield high quality graphene without the need for detrimental chemical processing are needed in order ...

Among various types of semiconductors, oxide semiconductors are the most promising host compounds to realise high Curie temperatures with transition metal doping. Room temperature ferromagnetism in dilute oxide semiconductors ...

The study presented in this thesis is concerned with low frequency fluctuations in magnetic systems. Three different systems were investigated. The first system is (CoFe/Pt)n multilayers patterned into micrometer scale ...

The development of the relatively new field of spin electronics is based on the possibility of manipulating the spin of the electron through a structure. If one aspect is to develop new device architecture to inject, ...

Organic semiconductor molecules are often employed as a thin film interlayer to improve electronic and optoelectronic devices. The characterisation of the interface is thus important to understand the physical properties ...

Bottom up grown germanium nanowires may have an important role to play in future electronic devices. While the electrical properties of nanowires grown using a metallic seed as a catalyst have been extensively reported we ...

In this thesis, three organic molecules are examined on three distinct surfaces by a variety of surface science techniques, foremost among them being scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). When deposited on the W02/W(110) ...

This thesis strives to improve our understanding of solar activity, specifically the behaviour of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. An investigation into the hydrodynamic evolution of a confined solar are was carried ...