Selected Publications

• A. Botman
  Towards high purity nanostructures from electron beam induced deposition of platinum
  PhD thesis, TU Delft (Netherlands), 2009 - full text at TU Delft | full text on this website
   
• A. Botman, J. J. L. Mulders, C. W. Hagen (2009)
  Creating pure nanostructures from electron-beam-induced deposition using purification techniques: a technology perspective
  Nanotechnology 20, 372001 (2009), doi:10.1088/0957-4484/20/37/372001
   
• L. van Kouwen, A. Botman, C. W. Hagen (2009)
  Focused electron-beam-induced deposition of 3 nm dots in a scanning electron microscope
  Nano Letters 9(5) 2149-2152 (2009), doi:10.1021/nl900717r
   
• A. Botman, C. W. Hagen, J. Li, B. L. Thiel, K. A. Dunn, J. J. L. Mulders, S. Randolph and M. Toth (2009)
  Electron postgrowth irradiation of platinum-containing nanostructures grown by electron-beam-induced deposition from Pt(PF3)4
  J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B Volume 27, Issue 6, pp. 2759-2763, doi:10.1116/1.3253551
   
• A. Botman, M. Hesselberth, J.J.L. Mulders (2008)
  Investigation of morphological changes in platinum-containing nano-structures created by electron-beam-induced deposition
  J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B Volume 26, Issue 6, pp. 2464-2467 , doi:10.1116/1.2990790
   
• A. Botman, D.A.M. de Winter and J.J.L. Mulders (2008)
  Electron-beam-induced deposition of platinum at low landing energies
  J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B Volume 26, Issue 6, pp. 2460-2463, doi:10.1116/1.2976576
   
• A. Botman, M. Hesselberth and J.J.L. Mulders (2008)
  Improving the conductivity of platinum-containing nano-structures created by electron-beam-induced deposition
  Microelectronic Engineering, 85, 1139--42, doi:10.1016/j.mee.2007.12.036
   
• A. Botman, J.J.L. Mulders, R. Weemaes and S. Mentink (2006)
  Purification of platinum and gold structures after electron-beam-induced deposition
  Nanotechnology, 17, 3779--85, doi:10.1088/0957-4484/17/15/028
   
• M.A. Clilverd, C.J. Rodger, T. Ulich, A. Seppala, E. Turunen, A. Botman, and N.R. Thomson (2005)
  Modeling a large solar proton event in the southern polar atmosphere
  J. Geophys. Res., 110, A09307, doi:10.1029/2004JA010922
   
• A. Botman (2004)
  Fabrication of nanogaps for investigating the transport properties and I-V characteristics of individual molecules -- towards molecular devices
  M.Sci. thesis, Cavendish Labs, Cambridge University