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Growth and Engineering of High Aspect-Ratio AAO Templates Integrated on Silicon Substrates

Choi S., Daugherty M., Enable IPC Corporation, US

We have developed a CMOS-compatible process for manufacturing nanowires directly on silicon (or other) substrates. This process removes some of the steps for conventional nanowire manufacture. The result are highly-ordered, high aspect-ratio nanowires for use [...]

Piezoelectric Inkjet Print Head Technology for TFT-LCD Panel Fabrication

Chen T., Trident - an ITW company, US

Flat Panel Display (FPD) technologies have been sweeping through the market which includes TVs, desktop monitors, notebook PCs, digital cameras, portable DVD, and so forth . Among them, TFT-LCD is dominating and approaching large size [...]

Fabrication of Nanoparticulate Inks for Applications in Printable Electronics

Reindl A., Aldabergenova S., Altin E., Frank G., Peukert W., Friedrich-Alexander University, DE

The main impetus of this work is the fabrication of stable suspensions (in regard to aggregation) suitable for a printing process. Therefore semiconducting nanoparticles were dispersed systematically in organic solvents using a variety of methods [...]

Novel Approaches for Functional Patterns and Microfluidic Synthesis

Choi K., Bell Labs, US

We describe here functional polymer synthesis for advanced nanotechnology. This includes elastomeric patterns fabricated using photocurable PDMS prepolymers. We also demonstrate MIP (molecularly imprinted polymer) patterns; MIP is produced by “molecular imprinting”, a general protocol [...]

Sonochemical Coating of TiC nanoparticles on expandable polymeric microspheres, Thermal & Mechanical properties of microspheres/epoxy nanocomposites

Rangari V.K., Hassan T.A., Mayo T. Watson Q., Jeelani S., Tuskegee University, US

Summary • Sonochemical method has been developed to coat nanoparticles on expandable polymeric microspheres. • n-Hexane is used as a solvent and proved to be a suitable solvent for sonochemical coating of nanoparticles on these [...]

Densification and Grain Growth During the Sintering of Nanoscale SiC

Bothara M., Park S-J, German R.M., Sudarshan T.S., Radhakrishnan R., Atre S.V., Oregon Nanoscience & Microtechnologies Institute, US

Numerous routes have been developed recently for the synthesis of a broad range of ceramic and metal nanoparticles. However, applications for these new materials have lagged behind owing to a limited understanding of processing methods [...]

Fabrication and characterization of Alq3 electrically actuated nanospring arrays

Dice G.D., Brett M.J., University of Alberta, CA

Glancing Angle Deposition (GLAD) is a single step physical vapour deposition (PVD) technique utilizing oblique deposition angles to create porous thin film helical structures. Previous nanospring work has used inorganic materials such as SiO2. Here, [...]

Electrostatic Printing of CNT Liquid Toners

Detig R., Eberlein D., Finzi M., Electrox corp., US

Using techniques developed from the electrostatics industry and liquid toner techniques from the copier/laser printer industry, we will describe techniques for the patterning and manipulation of carbon nano-tubes. We will also describe a self assembly [...]

MOS Structures Containing Amorphous Silicon Nanoparticles for Application in Memory Devices

Nedev N., Stoytcheva M., Nesheva D., Manolov E., Brüggemann R., Levi Z., Zlatev R., Valdez B., Alvarez L., Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, MX

Metal-Oxide-Silicon structures containing a layer with amorphous silicon nanoparticles in a silicon oxide matrix are fabricated by sequential physical vapour deposition of SiOx (x=1.15) and RF sputtering of SiO2 on n-type crystalline silicon, followed by [...]

1D transition metal oxide materials: preparation and applications

Tätte T., Paalo M., Talviste R., Kisand V., Saal K., Mäeorg U., Lõhmus A., Kink I., University of Tartu, EE

Recently many new technologies have been suggested for designing silica based optical devises in nanoscale. However, there are insuperable drawbacks in realizing optics based on silica (glass and quartz) because of their low refractive indexes. [...]