• Direct growth of single-layer terminated vertical graphene array on germanium by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition 

      Al-Hagri, Abdulrahman; Li, Ru; Rajput, Nitul S; Lu, Jin-You; Cong, Shan; Sloyan, Karen; Almahri, Mariam Ali; Tamalampudi, Srinivasa Reddy; Chiesa, Matteo; Al Ghaferi, Amal (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-26)
      Vertically aligned graphene nanosheet arrays (VAGNAs) exhibit large surface area, excellent electron transport properties, outstanding mechanical strength, high chemical stability, and enhanced electrochemical activity, which makes them highly promising for application in supercapacitors, batteries, fuel cell catalysts, etc. It is shown that VAGNAs terminated with a high-quality single-layer graphene ...
    • Discerning the Contribution of Morphology and Chemistry in Wettability Studies 

      Sloyan, Karen; Lai, Chia-Yun; Lu, Jin-You; Alfakes, Boulos; Al Hassan, Saeed; Almansouri, Ibraheem; Dahlem, Marcus S; Chiesa, Matteo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-15)
      The wetting behavior of homogeneous systems is now well understood at the macroscopic scale. However, this understanding offers little predictive power regarding wettability when mesoscopic chemical and morphological heterogeneities come into play. The fundamental interest in the effect of heterogeneity on wettability is derived from its high technological relevance in several industries, including ...
    • A review of focused ion beam applications in optical fibers 

      Sloyan, Karen; Melkonyan, Henrik; Apostoleris, Harry; Dahlem, Marcus S.; Chiesa, Matteo; Al Ghaferi, Amal (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-02)
      Focused ion beam (FIB) technology has become a promising technique in micro- and nano-prototyping due to several advantages over its counterparts such as direct (maskless) processing, sub-10 nm feature size, and high reproducibility. Moreover, FIB machining can be effectively implemented on both conventional planar substrates and unconventional curved surfaces such as optical fibers, which are popular ...