Publications

Journal Papers

Thin Films and Microstructural Characterization by Electron Microscopy and Diffraction Methods

I. Goldfarb, J. Pelleg, L. Zevin and N. Croitoru, “Lattice distortion of IVB metal (Ti, Zr, Hf) nitrids”, Thin Solid Films 200, 117-127 (1991). pdf
I. Goldfarb, E. Zolotoyabko and D. Shechtman, ”X-ray diffraction characterization of ternary artificial superlattices”, J. Appl. Phys.74, 2501-2506 (1993). pdf
I. Goldfarb, E. Zolotoyabko, A. Berner and D. Shechtman, “Novel sample preparation technique for the study of multi-component phase diagrams”, Materials Letters 21, 149-154 (1994). pdf
I. Goldfarb, W.D. Kaplan, S. Ariely and M. Bamberger, “Fault-induced polytypism in (Cr,Fe)2B”, Phil. Mag. A 72, 963-979 (1995). pdf
I. Goldfarb, E. Zolotoyabko and M. Bamberger, “Twinning in AuCu3 (Ag) II long period superlattice”, Phil. Mag. A 72, 981-996 (1995). pdf
I. Goldfarb and M. Bamberger, “The microstructure of the laser-alloyed steel and iron: similarities and differences”, Scripta Materialia 34, 1051-1057 (1996). pdf
I. Goldfarb, “Limits of Kinematic modelling of superlattice period due to Laue function convergence”, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 159, 90-94 (1996).pdf

Surface Science and Methods, Epitaxial Growth, Nanostructure Self-Organization, and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

I. Goldfarb, J.H.G. Owen, P.T. Hayden, K. Miki and G.A.D. Briggs, “Nucleation, growth and size-distribution of Ge islands on Si(001): in situ STM studies”, Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser. 157, 597-600 (1997).
I. Goldfarb, P.T. Hayden, J.H.G. Owen and G.A.D. Briggs, “Nucleation of “hut” pits and clusters during gas-source molecular-beam epitaxy of Ge/Si(001) in in-situ scanning tunneling microscopy”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3959-3962 (1997). pdf
I. Goldfarb, P.T. Hayden, J.H.G. Owen and G.A.D. Briggs, “Competing growth mechanisms of Ge/Si(001) coherent clusters”, Phys. Rev. B 56, 10459-1068 (1997). pdf
I. Goldfarb, J.H.G. Owen, P.T. Hayden, D.R. Bowler, K. Miki and G.A.D. Briggs, “Gas-source growth of group IV semiconductors 3: Nucleation and growth of Ge/Si(001)”, Surf. Sci. 394, 105-118 (1997). pdf
J.H.G. Owen, K. Miki, D.R. Bowler, C.M. Goringe, I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Gas-source growth of group IV semiconductors 2: Growth regimes and the effect of hydrogen”, Surf. Sci. 394, 91-104 (1997). pdf
J.H.G. Owen, K. Miki, D.R. Bowler, C.M. Goringe, I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Gas-source growth of group IV semiconductors 1: Si(001) nucleation mechanisms”, Surf. Sci. 394, 79-90 (1997). pdf
I. Goldfarb, J.H.G. Owen, D.R. Bowler, C.M. Goringe, P.T. Hayden, K. Miki, D.G. Pettifor and G.A.D. Briggs, “In-situ observation of gas-source molecular beam epitaxy of silicon and germanium on Si(001)”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A. 16, 1938-1943 (1998). pdf
I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Atomic assembly of germanium on silicon”, J. Surf. Anal. 4, 143-147 (1998).
I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “The effect of mismatch strain on Stranski-Krastanow transition in epitaxial GexSi1-x/Si(001) gas-source growth”, J. Cryst. Growth. 198-199, 1032-1038 (1999). pdf
I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Comparative STM and RHEED studies of Ge/Si(001) and Si/Ge/Si(001) surfaces”, Surf. Sci. 433-435, 449-454 (1999). pdf
I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Reactive deposition epitaxy of CoSi2 nanostructures on Si(001): Nucleation and growth, and evolution of dots during anneal”, Phys. Rev. B. 60, 4800-4809 (1999). pdf
I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Nucleation and growth of CoSi2 dots on Si(001)”, Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser. 164, 553-556 (1999).
I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Self-assembled metal-semi-conductor compound nanocrystals on Group IV semiconductor surfaces”, Surf. Sci. 454-456, 837-841 (2000). pdf
S.D. Kenny, I. Goldfarb, E. Akhmatskaya, G.A.D. Briggs, "Surface reconstructions on the (100)CoSi2 surface", Surf. Sci. 465, 259-265 (2000). pdf
I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Surface studies of phase formation in Co-Ge system: reactive deposition epitaxy vs. solid phase epitaxy”, J. Mater. Res. 16, 744-752 (2001). pdf
R.E. Tanner, I. Goldfarb, M.R. Castell, and G.A.D. Briggs, “The evolution of Ni nanoislands on the rutile TiO2(110) surface with coverage, heating and oxygen treatment”, Surf. Sci. 486(3), 167-184 (2001). pdf
I. Goldfarb, L. Banks-Sills, R. Eliasi, G.A.D. Briggs, “Finite Element Analysis of CoSi2 nanocrystals on Si(001)”, Interface Science 10, 75-81 (2002). pdf
I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Analysis of complex heterogeneous surfaces by bias-dependent scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy”, Mat. Sci. Eng. B. 91-92, 115-119 (2002). pdf
I. Goldfarb and G.A.D. Briggs, “Morphological evolution of epitaxial cobalt-semiconductor compound layers during growth in a scanning tunneling microscope”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 20, 1419-1426 (2002). pdf
I. Goldfarb, J.L. Azar, A. Grisaru, E. Grünbaum, M. Nathan, “Molecular beam epitaxy of Ge on GaAs(001) and Si capping”, J. Appl. Phys. 93, 3057-3062 (2003). pdf
I. Goldfarb, “CoSi2 surface phase separation into self-assembled lateral multilayers”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 1185-1187 (2003). pdf
A. Ruzin, I. Torchinski, I. Goldfarb, “Electrical measurements of structural defects in Cd0.9Zn0.1Te by atomic force microscopy based methods”, Semicond. Sci. Tech. 19, 644-647 (2004). pdf
I. Goldfarb, “Synthesis of ultrathin semiconducting iron silicide epilayers on Si(111) by high temperature flash”, Surf. Sci. (Lett.) 554, L87-L93 (2004). pdf
I. Goldfarb, L. Banks-Sills, R. Eliasi, “Si-capping of Ge nanohuts on Si(001) analysed by scanning tunneling microscopy and the finite element method”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 1781-1783 (2004). pdf
I. Goldfarb, S. Grossman, G. Cohen-Taguri, M. Levinshtein, “Scanning tunneling microscopy of titanium silicide nanoislands”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 238, 29-35 (2004). pdf
I. Goldfarb, “Effect of strain on the appearance of subcritical nuclei of Ge nanohuts on Si(001)”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 025501-4 (2005). pdf
I. Goldfarb, G. Cohen-Taguri, S. Grossman, M. Levinshtein, “Equilibrium shape of titanium silicide nanocrystals”, Phys. Rev. B 72, 075430 (2005). pdf
I. Goldfarb, S. Grossman, G. Cohen-Taguri, “Evolution of epitaxial titanium silicide nanocrystals as a function of growth method and annealing treatments”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 252, 5355 (2006). pdf
I. Goldfarb, L. Banks-Sills, R. Eliasi, “Is the elongation of Ge huts in a low-temperature regime really governed by kinetics?”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206101 (2006). pdf
I. Goldfarb, “In-plane and out-of-plane shape transitions of heteroepitaxially self-assembled nanostructures”, Surf. Sci. 601, 2756 (2007). pdf
I. Goldfarb, “Step-mediated size-selection and ordering of heteroepitaxial nanocrystals”, Nanotechnology 18, 335304 (2007). pdf
G. Cohen-Taguri, M. Levinshtein, A. Ruzin, and I. Goldfarb, “Real space identification of the CZT(110) surface atomic structure by scanning tunneling microscopy”, Surf. Sci. 602(3), 712-723 (2008). pdf
I. Goldfarb and M. Levinshtein, “Self-organization of cobalt-silicide nanoislands on stepped Si(111)”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 8(2), 801-805 (2008). February 2008.
I. Goldfarb, E. Roizin, S. Manor, M. Levinshtein, “Self-organizational tendencies of heteroepitaxial transition-metal silicide nanoislands”, Mat. Sci. Semicon. Proc. 12(1-2), 6-11 (2009). pdf
G. Cohen-Taguri, O. Sinkevich, M. Levinshtein, A. Ruzin, and I. Goldfarb, “Atomic structure and electrical properties of In(Te) nano-contacts on CdZnTe(110) by scanning probe microscopy”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 20(2) 215-223 (2010). pdf
S. Manor, J.K. Tripathi, I. Goldfarb, “Evidence of electronic growth in titanium- and cobalt-silicide nanoislands”, J. Mater. Sci. 45(23), 6313-6319 (2010). pdf
J.K. Tripathi, M. Garbrecht, C.G. Sztrum-Vartash, E. Rabani, W.D. Kaplan, I. Goldfarb, “Coverage-dependent self-organized ordering of Co- and Ti-silicide nanoislands along step-bunch edges of vicinal Si(111)”, Phys. Rev. B 83, 165409 (2011). pdf
G. Cohen-Taguri, A. Ruzin, I. Goldfarb, “Self-assembled formation and transformation of In/CdZnTe(110) nano-rings into camel-humps”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 213116 (2012). pdf
A. Ruzin, O. Sinkevich, G. Cohen-Taguri, I. Goldfarb, “Anomalous behavior of epitaxial indium nano-contacts on cadmium-zinc-telluride”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 132108 (2012). pdf
J.K. Tripathi, M. Garbrecht, W.D. Kaplan, G. Markovich, I. Goldfarb, “Effect of Fe coverage on the structure, morphology, and magnetic properties of self-ordered a-FeSi2 nanoislands”, Nanotechnology 23, 495603 (2012). pdf
J.K. Tripathi, G. Markovich, I. Goldfarb, “Self-Ordered Magnetic a-FeSi2 Nano-Stripes on Si(111)”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 251604 (2013). pdf
J.K. Tripathi, R. Levy, Y. Camus, M. Dascalu, F. Cesura, R. Chalasani, A. Kohn, G. Markovich, I. Goldfarb, “Self-Organized growth and magnetic properties of epitaxial silicide nanoislands”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 391A, 24-32 (2017). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169433216303464
I Goldfarb, Y. Camus, M. Dascalu, F. Cesura, R. Chalasani, A. Kohn, “Tuning magnetic response of epitaxial iron-silicide nanoislands by controlled self-assembled growth”, Phys. Rev. B 96, 045415 (2017). https://journals.aps.org/prb/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.045415
I Goldfarb, F. Cesura, M. Dascalu, “Magnetic binary silicide nanostructures”, Adv. Mater. 30, 1800004 (2018). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201800004
F. Cesura, M. Dascalu, I Goldfarb, “Effects of 1D disorder on the reciprocal space of rare-earth silicide/Si(111) epilayers”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 458, 705-713 (2018). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169433218320336?via%3Dihub
M. Dascalu, F. Cesura, G. Levi, O. Dieguez, A. Kohn, I Goldfarb, “Controlling the supermagnetic response of tetragonal a-FeSi2 nanoislands”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 476, 189-197 (2019). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169433219300868
M. Dascalu, O. Dieguez, Liwei D. Geng, Ranjit Pati, Yongmei M. Jin, I Goldfarb, “Tomographic layer-by-layer analysis of epitaxial iron-silicide nanostructures by DFT-assisted STS”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 496, 1 Dec 2019,143583 (2019). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169433219323803
M. Dascalu, F. Cesura, R. Levi, O. Dieguez, I Goldfarb, “Interface effects in epilayer surface density of states by scanning tunneling spectroscopy and density functional theory”, Adv. Theory Simul. 2, 1900140 (2019). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adts.201900140
Liwei Geng, Sahil Dhoka, Ilan Goldfarb, Ranjit Pati, Yongmei Jin, “Origin of magnetism in g-FeSi2/Si(111) Nanostructures”, Nanomaterials 11, 849 (2021). (pdf)
Anjan Bhukta, Dror Horvitz, Amit Kohn, Ilan Goldfarb, “Lattice-match stabilization and magnetic properties of metastable epitaxial Permalloy-disilicide nanostructures on a vicinal Si(111) substrate”, Nanomaterials 11, 1310 (2021). https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/5/1310
Anjan Bhukta, George Levi, Dror Horvitz, Amit Kohn, Ilan Goldfarb, “Self-organized exchange-spring magnet in epitaxial β-Fe(Ni)Si2/Si system”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 562, 150071 (2021). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169433221011478
Adham Basha, George Levi, Tamir Amrani, Yang Li, Guy Ankonina, Pini Shekhter, Lior Kornblum, Ilan Goldfarb, Amit Kohn, “Elastic and inelastic mean free path for scattering of fast electrons in thin-film oxides”, Ultramicroscopy 240, 113570 (2022). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304399122001000
Adham Basha, George Levi, Tamir Amrani, Yang Li, Guy Ankonina, Pini Shekhter, Lior Kornblum, Ilan Goldfarb, Amit Kohn, “A straightforward method for measuring the elastic and inelastic mean free paths for scattering of fast electrons in technologically important thin-film oxides”, Microsc. Microanal. 28 (S1), 774-778 (2022). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-and-microanalysis/article/straightforward-method-for-measuring-the-elastic-and-inelastic-mean-free-paths-for-scattering-of-fast-electrons-in-technologically-important-thinfilm-oxides/32453E6243D6F56B1D468F306FA229C3
Anjan Bhukta, Akhilesh Kumar Patel, Dror Horvitz, Amit Kohn, Ilan Goldfarb, “Spontaneous Creation of Exchange Bias in Epitaxially Self-Assembled Nanostructures Driven by Inhomogeneous Structural Transformation”, Appl. Surf. Sci. (2022, in press).
Roman, Hashim, Bahman, Ishdeep, Laura, Ilan, Nico, Shachar, Anna, “One pot, bio-assisted synthesis of metallic nanoparticles: programming the size, shape, and aggregation”, J. Nanobiotechnol. (2022, in press).

Oxides & Memristors

J.P. Strachan, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, J.J. Yang, M.-X. Zhang, F. Miao, I. Goldfarb, M. Holt, V. Rose, R.S. Williams, “Spectromicroscopy of tantalum oxide memristors”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 242114 (2011). pdf
F. Miao, J.P. Strachan, J.J. Yang, M.-X. Zhang, I. Goldfarb, A.C. Torrezan, P. Eschbach, R.D. Kelley, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, R.S. Williams, “Anatomy of a nanoscale conduction channel reveals the mechanism of a high-performance memristor”, Adv. Mater. 23, 5633-5640 (2011). pdf
F. Miao, W. Yi, I. Goldfarb, J.J. Yang, M.-X. Zhang, M. D. Pickett, J.P. Strachan, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, R.S. Williams, “Continuous electrical tuning of the chemical composition of TaOx-based memristors”, ACS Nano 6, 2312-2318 (2012). pdf
I. Goldfarb, F. Miao, J.J. Yang, W. Yi, J.P. Strachan, M.-X. Zhang, M. D. Pickett, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, R.S. Williams, “Electronic structure and transport measurements of amorphous transition-metal oxides: observation of Fermi glass behavior”, Appl. Phys. A – Mater. 107, 1-11 (2012). pdf
I. Goldfarb, D. A. A. Ohlberg, J. P. Strachan, M. D. Pickett, J. J. Yang, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, R. S. Williams, “Band offsets in transition-metal oxide heterostructures”, J. Phys. D - Appl. Phys. 46, 295303 (2013). pdf
I. Goldfarb and R. S. Williams, “Conduction centers in a Ta2O5-d Fermi glass”, Applied Physics A - Mater. 114, 287-289 (2014), pdf
P. Baikov, K. Ranganathan, I. Goldfarb, A. Ruzin, “Contact size-dependent switching instabilities in HfO2 RRAM”, J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Electron. 33, 22230-22243 (2022). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10854-022-09002-1

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MEMS and other…

M. Nathan, O. Levy, I. Goldfarb, A. Ruzin, “Monolithic coupling of SU8 waveguide to a silicon photodiode”, J. Appl. Phys. 94, 7932-7934 (2003). pdf
O. Levy, S. Krylov, and I. Goldfarb, “Design consideration for negative Poisson ratio structures under large deflection for MEMS applications”, Smart Mater. Struct. 15, 1459 (2006). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0964-1726/15/5/035 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0964-1726/15/5/035/
O. Levy, B.Z. Steinberg, A. Boag, S. Krylov, and I. Goldfarb, “Mechanical tun ing of two-dimensional photonic crystal cavity by micro electro mechanical flexures”, Sensor. Actua. A-Phys. 139, 47 (2007). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924424706007394