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Acoustic-driven magnetic skyrmion motion in Ta / CoFeB / MgO multilayers
A Tsinghua group reports in Nature Communications that surface acoustic waves can move Néel skyrmions — opening a wireless, low-energy control axis for spintronic memory.
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Maze domains and skyrmions in SAF / MgO / [Ta/Co/Pt]₉ MTJ
MFM imaging at the multilayer stage — confirm magnetic structure before lithography and close the recipe-development loop fast.
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Perovskite tandems hit 35% — the deposition chain behind it
NREL certified a 35% tandem in 2026 — but a record cell is built by vacuum deposition. A look at the stack.
ALD Technology: From Atomic Precision to Industrial Scale
Self-limiting surface chemistry that enables next-generation conformal coatings and films.
PVD Fundamentals: Sputtering vs. Evaporation
A practical guide to choosing the right physical vapor deposition technique for your film.
How to Choose a Thin Film Deposition System
A decision-making framework for selecting equipment that fits your research goals and budget.
DC, RF, and HiPIMS sputtering: which magnetron mode fits your film?
Three ways to power a magnetron, each suited to different targets and film requirements.
Why air-sensitive materials need glovebox-integrated deposition
Coupling the chamber to an inert glovebox protects perovskites, lithium, and organics end to end.
AFM, MFM, and KPFM: choosing the right scanning-probe mode
One scanning-probe platform, three answers: topography, magnetic domains, and surface potential.
Multi-source co-evaporation: precise control of alloys and doping
Running several thermal sources at once tunes composition, grades layers, and dopes films in situ.
Acoustic-driven magnetic skyrmion motion in Ta / CoFeB / MgO multilayers
Tsinghua University, Nature Communications 2024. SAW-driven Néel skyrmion motion.
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Maze domains and skyrmions in SAF / MgO / [Ta/Co/Pt]₉ MTJ
MFM imaging at the multilayer stage — confirm magnetic structure before lithography.
Lead-free tin perovskite solar cells reach record voltage via ETL design
ShanghaiTech, Nature Communications 2020. ICBA electron-transport layer; Ag electrode on an Angstrom Engineering system.
Mitigating residual MA⁺ for stable FAPbI₃ perovskite photovoltaics
Westlake / Zhejiang University, Nature Communications 2025. LiF / C60 / BCP / Ag stack thermally evaporated on an Angstrom Engineering system.
A general route to ionic-electronic coupled 2D materials
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Nature Communications 2024. 20 types of 2D AMX₂; Au/AgCrS₂/Au contacts on an Angstrom Engineering Nexdep system.
Grain boundaries that don't leak: a van der Waals dielectric for 2D electronics
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Nature Communications 2026. Sb₂O₃ molecular dielectric deposited on an Angstrom Engineering Nexdep system.
Radical OLEDs: harvesting both singlet and triplet excitons
Jilin / Cambridge / Linköping, Nature Communications 2022. Luminescent radicals route both exciton types to fast doublet emission; devices on an Angstrom Engineering EvoVac 700.
When evaporated molecules align themselves: organic films as nonlinear optics
McGill University, ACS Photonics 2024. Spontaneous orientation gives evaporated films a χ⁽²⁾ ≈ 20 pm/V response — grown on an Angstrom Engineering EvoVac.
An ultrathin amorphous electrolyte that blocks lithium dendrites
Empa, Communications Materials 2021. Amorphous LLZO film blocks dendrites in solid-state batteries; Li and metal layers on an Angstrom Engineering Nexdep system.
Watching the interphase grow: operando XPS at solid-state battery anodes
Georgia Institute of Technology, JACS 2025. Operando XPS tracks alloy-anode interphase growth; alloy electrodes on an Angstrom Engineering AMOD 060 PVD system.
Room-temperature tantalum films for low-loss superconducting qubit resonators
AWS Center for Quantum Computing / Brookhaven, Communications Materials 2025. Low-loss tantalum DC-magnetron-sputtered at room temperature on an Angstrom Engineering system.
Superconducting niobium nitride films, sputtered at room temperature
Drexel / Argonne, APL Materials 2018. Ion-beam-assisted sputtering yields superconducting NbN at room temperature on an Angstrom Engineering UHV system.
Morphology, not just doping, sets a polymer's thermoelectric power factor
UC Santa Barbara, Science Advances 2017. Film morphology controls thermoelectric performance; gold contacts on an Angstrom Engineering AMOD system.
Layered organic semiconductor heterostructures for ultrasensitive hydrogen sensing
MIT, Nano Letters 2026. n-type organic heterostructure detects hydrogen at low concentrations; organic layers on an Angstrom Engineering thermal evaporator.
Imaging spin waves with color-center magnetometry
TU Delft, Nature Communications 2025. Diamond and hBN color centers image spin waves; permalloy films on an Angstrom Engineering Nexdep inside a glovebox.
Writing NV centers into diamond with 100× less laser energy
University of Chicago, Nano Letters 2024. Cavity-enhanced laser writing of NV centers; gold layers on an Angstrom Engineering Nexdep PVD platform.
Low-loss chalcogenide waveguides for mid-infrared chemical sensing
Australian National University, Optics Express 2013. Chalcogenide-glass waveguides for mid-IR sensing; films thermally evaporated on an Angstrom Engineering system.
Nanoplasmonic pillar substrates for surface-enhanced Raman sensing
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Applied Sciences 2019. Pillar-based SERS substrates; plasmonic noble-metal films on an Angstrom Engineering EvoVac 10 kW e-beam evaporator.
Engineering ultrabarrier films to seal OLEDs against moisture
Georgia Tech / Oak Ridge, J. Appl. Phys. 2015. Mechanical reliability of ALD encapsulation barriers; calcium test films on a glovebox-connected Angstrom Engineering EvoVac.
What happens to quantum-dot films without encapsulation
University of Waterloo, Organic Electronics 2024. Luminescence quenching in unencapsulated QD stacks; Al layers thermally evaporated on an Angstrom Engineering system.
Micron-thick Mo-Cu films as structural layers for MEMS
Saratov State University, JVST B 2022. Stress-engineered MEMS structural films by dual-magnetron co-sputtering on an Angstrom Engineering Nexdep.
A 3D-printed microreactor with sputtered electrodes for gas sensing
University of Calgary, IEEE MEMS 2016. Hybrid 3D-print + microfabrication; Cr/Au electrodes sputtered on an Angstrom Engineering Nexdep.
Transferring 2D materials free of cracks, contamination, and wrinkles
Peking University / Beijing Graphene Institute, Nature Communications 2022. Large-area transfer that designs out the three failure modes; electrodes on an Angstrom Engineering Nexdep.
Switching adhesion on and off to transfer 2D materials cleanly
Peking University, Advanced Materials 2024. Tunable adhesion by freezing the transfer medium prevents tearing and residue; device metals on an Angstrom Engineering Nexdep.
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