Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50389#.VDy_gVfHRK0 Author(s) Masami Aono 1 , Takashi Ueda 1 , Hiroshi Abe 1* , Shintaro Kobayashi 2 , Katsuhiko Inaba 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan . 2 Application Laboratory, Rigaku Co., Akishima, Tokyo, Japan . ABSTRACT By direct observations of transmission electron microscopy (TEM), irreversible morphological transformations of as-deposited amorphous Au/Si multilayer (a-Au/a-Si) were observed on heating. The well arrayed sequence of the multilayer changed to zigzag layered structure at 478 K (=T zig ). Finally, the zigzag structure transformed to Au nanoparticles at 508 K....
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