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Vasarely painting at the nanoscale on sapphire crystals

Show Author's Information Caroline Matringe1,  Elsa Thune1,  Rémy Cavalotti1,  Ahmad Fakih1,  Stephan Arnaud2,  Nils Blanc2,  Nathalie Boudet2,  Alessandro Coati3,  Yves Garreau3,4,  David Babonneau5,  René Guinebretière1( )
IRCER, UMR CNRS 7315, Centre Européen de la Céramique, Université de Limoges, 12 rue Atlantis, 87068 Limoges, France
Institut Néel UPR CNRS 2940, CRG D2AM Beamline, ESRF, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38042 Grenoble, France
SixS Beamline, Synchrotron SOLEIL, BP48, 91192 Gif sur Yvette, France
Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Université de Paris, 75013 Paris, France
Institut Pprime, Département Physique et Mécanique des Matériaux, UPR CNRS 3346, Université de Poitiers, SP2MI, TSA 41123, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
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nanoscaled Vasarely surfaces, two-dimensional (2D)-self-organization, sapphire vicinal surfaces
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Matringe C, Thune E, Cavalotti R, et al. Vasarely painting at the nanoscale on sapphire crystals. Nano Research, 2020, 13(9): 2512-2516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2888-4
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We demonstrate that convenient thermal treatment of a specific sapphire vicinal surface can induce the formation of a fully two-dimensional (2D) ordered surface made of a periodic assembly of (006) facets. The similarity between the resulting surface topography and patterns represented in the "hexagon series" of paintings by Vasarely is really striking! We thus propose to call these surfaces as "nanoscaled Vasarely surfaces" . We also show that the self-organization process, which is driven by the minimization of the free energy of a closed system, results in a quasi-linear isothermal growth of the facets’ surface area over time.


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Vasarely painting at the nanoscale on sapphire crystals

Show Author's information Caroline Matringe1, Elsa Thune1, Rémy Cavalotti1, Ahmad Fakih1, Stephan Arnaud2, Nils Blanc2, Nathalie Boudet2, Alessandro Coati3, Yves Garreau3,4, David Babonneau5, René Guinebretière1( )
IRCER, UMR CNRS 7315, Centre Européen de la Céramique, Université de Limoges, 12 rue Atlantis, 87068 Limoges, France
Institut Néel UPR CNRS 2940, CRG D2AM Beamline, ESRF, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38042 Grenoble, France
SixS Beamline, Synchrotron SOLEIL, BP48, 91192 Gif sur Yvette, France
Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Université de Paris, 75013 Paris, France
Institut Pprime, Département Physique et Mécanique des Matériaux, UPR CNRS 3346, Université de Poitiers, SP2MI, TSA 41123, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France

Abstract

We demonstrate that convenient thermal treatment of a specific sapphire vicinal surface can induce the formation of a fully two-dimensional (2D) ordered surface made of a periodic assembly of (006) facets. The similarity between the resulting surface topography and patterns represented in the "hexagon series" of paintings by Vasarely is really striking! We thus propose to call these surfaces as "nanoscaled Vasarely surfaces" . We also show that the self-organization process, which is driven by the minimization of the free energy of a closed system, results in a quasi-linear isothermal growth of the facets’ surface area over time.

Keywords: nanoscaled Vasarely surfaces, two-dimensional (2D)-self-organization, sapphire vicinal surfaces

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Received: 27 February 2020
Revised: 22 April 2020
Accepted: 18 May 2020
Published: 03 July 2020
Issue date: September 2020

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Acknowledgements

This work has been carried out partially within the QMAX Project No. ANR-09-NANO-031 funded by the French National Agency (ANR) in the frame of its program in Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies and Nanosystems (P3N2009). We acknowledge the synchrotron SOLEIL and the ESRF for provision of beamtime at the synchrotron radiation facilities. The authors express their gratitude towards the Limousin Region for financial support of the PhD salaries of A.F. and C.M..

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