Pd cluster seeds

Figures 7.6a and b show high resolution SEM images of the Co-Zr-Nb SUL surface without any treatment and that treated with PdCl solution, respectively. An island-like stmcture with the mean diameter of ca. 9 nm was formed on the SUL with a high density, where the mean distance between adjacent clusters was ca. 18 nm. From X-ray photospectroscopy and diffractometry, the island-like structure was identified as the Pd metal with fee stmcture [30], which is hereafter called Pd cluster seeds .

Fig. 7.7 MFM images at the ac-demagnetized states of the Co/Pd multilayered films (a) with the sputter-deposited 10 nm-thick Pd seedlayer (film I) and (b) with the Pd cluster seeds (film 11). Plan-view TEM bright field images of (c) film I and (d) film II [31]...

Vitis shuttleworthii House is native only to Florida. It was used in breeding the cul-livar Stover. This species has good disease (especially PD) and insect resistance, vine vigor, berry size, small seeds, wide climatic and soil adaptation, and high yield potential. It also has tough pulp, acidic juice, and rather small clusters. V shuttleworthii has been used in rootstock breeding in Horida as well (Fennell, 1938 Mortensen and Stover, 1990 Rogers and Mortensen, 1979). 

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