Papers:
Optical Nanotrapping Using Illuminated Metallic Nanostructures: Analysis and Applications
The interest in optical particle manipulation has grown steadily in recent years especially for applications in the biological sciences where the manipulated objects include cells, organelles, and larger molecules. While micron and sub-micron bioparticles can [...]
Fabrication and Characterizations of Ultra Violet Photosensor Based on Single ZnO Nanorod
Wide-gap semiconducting metal oxides with nanostructures such as nanorods, nanowires are promising as building nanoblocks in novel devices. Zinc oxide is most widely applied material owing to its characteristics and low cost, radiation hardness, chemical [...]
Simulation and Fabrication of Large Area 3D Nanostructures
Bogart K.H.A., El-kady I., Grubbs R.K., Rahimian K., Sanchez A.M., Ellis A.R., Wiwi M., McCormick F.B., J.-L. Shir D., Rogers J.A., Sandia National Laboratories, US
Three-dimensional (3D) nano-structures are vital for emerging technologies such as photonics, sensors, fuel cells, catalyst supports, and data storage. The Proximity-field nanoPatterning1 method generates complex 3D nanostructures using a single exposure and development cycle. Exposure [...]
From Radar to Nodar
Photonics and Nanotechnologies are emerging revolutionary technologies that will provide a revolution in the sectors of sensors and radar systems. SELEX Sistemi Integrati intends to face this evolution as a leader by proactively supporting and [...]
Passive Light Power Control Enbaled by Nanotechnology
The need to regulate and control light power is relevant not only for sophisticated communication systems but also to everyday optical equipment such as cameras or car rear-view mirror and require an active electronic feedback [...]
FIB generated antimony nanowires as chemical sensors
Sb nanowires with a homogeneous distribution of diameters of about 25 nm and length up to several microns are synthesized in a self-assembling process without any additional material source at room temperature by the impact [...]
Well-ordered Semiconductor Wire-Arrays Driven by in-Fibre Capillary Layer Breakup
One-dimensional structures with nanometre scale have been demonstrated with substantial progresses for device applications in electronics, photonics, photovoltaics and biology. The fabrication for the well-ordered extended semiconductor wires is highly desirable for the alignment and [...]
Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET) with Strained Silicon Thinfilm Body for Enhanced Drain Current and Pragmatic Threshold Voltage
Quantum tunneling devices are very promising as they have very low leakage current and show good scalability. However, the most serious drawback for tunneling devices hampering their wide-scale CMOS application is their low on-current and [...]
Benchmarking Performance and Physical Limits of Processing Electronic Device and Systems: Solid-State and Molecular Paradigms
We study physical limits and research performance estimates. The designer examines the device and system performance and capabilities using distinct performance measures, estimates, indexes and metrics. At the device level, we examine functionality, study characteristics [...]
Three-Dimensional-Topology Processing and Memory Cells For Molecular Electronics
Lyshevski M.A., Lyshevski S.E., Lyshevski M.A., Lyshevski S.E., Microsystems and Nanotechnologies, US
This paper researches an innovative molecular electronics solution for molecular processing platforms which utilize three-dimensional (3D) topology molecular electronic devices and 3D system organization. Departing form the conventional concepts, we use the polypeptides as a [...]
Quantum Fourier Transform Circuit Simulator
Quantum Fourier transform is of primary importance in many quantum algorithms. This paper presents the development of a Quantum Fourier Transform Circuit Simulator system that processes classical analog signals and presents the results of the [...]
Effect of swift heavy ion on CdS quantum dots embedded in PVA matrix and their applications
We report synthesis of CdS quantum dots by chemical route at room temperature. In this technique CdS specimen are produced by simple chemical reactions where polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), acting as matrix, plays the key role [...]
Numerical Analysis on Si-Ge Nanowire MOSFETs with Core-Shell Structure
This paper investigates the transport properties of the silicon/Germanium nanowire MOSFETs with core-shell structure by a numerical method. Coupling Poisson’s equation to Schrödinger’s equation for electrostatics calculation, and electron structure to current transport equation for [...]
Atomistic Simulation on Boron Transient Diffusion during in Pre-amorphized Silicon Substrate
We investigated the boron diffusion in the silicon posterior to PAI (pre-amorphization implant) in order to understand the mechanism for amorphization process and generation-recombnation of defects. Silicon atoms were weighed as a new pre-amorphization implant [...]
Design and implementation of silicon-based optical nanostructures for integrated photonic circuit applications using Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) technique
Selvarasah S., Banyal R., Casse B.D.F., Lu W.T., Sridhar S., Dokmeci M.R., Northeastern University, US
Photonic crystals (PhC) are artificially engineered periodic structures capable of manipulating and shaping optical signals. Nanoscale photonic crystals is expected to add new functionalities to the next generation of optical integrated circuits by providing novel [...]
Experiments and Simulations of Infrared Transmission by Transverse Magnetic Mode through Au Gratings on Silicon with Various Air-slot Widths over the Period
Au gratings with various air-slot widths were fabricated experimentally by electron beam lithography system (e-beam) and their infrared (2.5~25 m) transmission of the transverse magnetic mode (TM mode) were investigated by the Fourier Transform Infrared [...]
Optical absorption and luminescence study of ZnS quantum dots
We report here ZnS quantum dots synthesized by chemical method at room temperature. In this technique ZnS quantum dots are produced by simple chemical reactions where Zeolite, acting as matrix, plays the key role in [...]
Polypyrrole nanoionic composites for solid state electronics
In this report, a conjugated semiconducting polymer composite was designed to have a mobile charge carrier density that can be controlled through an electric field. An electrochemically deposited polypyrrole (PPy) composite between two gold electrodes [...]
Multi-Bit/Cell SONOS Flash Memory with Recessed Channel Structure
A novel device structure for 4-bit/cell with recessed channel structure is presented and characterized for NOR-type nonvolatile memory (NVM) technology. In this paper, we studied a 4-bit/cell SONOS flash memory cell Since two transistors in [...]
Logicless Computational Architectures with Nanoscale Crossbar Arrays
Modern computational architectures are reliant on basic logic circuits carrying out Boolean operations such as AND, OR, XOR, etc. Recently efforts have been made to replicate the functions of such logic circuits using various nanoelectronic [...]
Implementation of Comparison Function Using Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
Quantum-Dot cellular automata (QCA) architectures represent the future of computing. But it can only implement an inverter and a three input majority gate directly. Consequently very few QCA architectures are available in literature. By fixing [...]
Modeling and Analysis of a Membrane-Based Randomized-Contact Decoder
Controlling nanowires with mesoscale wires is important in addressing nanoscale memories. In this paper we report on simulations and analysis of an implementation of the randomized-contact decoder that is based on the use of porous [...]
Low Turn-On Voltage and High Focus Capability Nanogaps for Field Emission Displays
Nanometer scale gaps (nanogaps) has been wildly used as electrode in molecular electronics [1,2], biosensor [3], and vacuum microelectronics [4]. However, the difficult from the fabrication limits the development of such technique until the surface [...]
OH Radical Oxidation of Ethylene Adsorbed on Graphene: A Quantum Chemistry Study
The functionalization of carbon based nanomaterials could have applications in atmospheric chemistry and contaminants removal. In this work, a quantum chemistry and computational kinetics study has been performed on the OH radical addition to ethylene [...]
Germanium antimony sulphide nano wires fabricated by chemical vapour deposition and e-beam lithography
Germanium antimony sulphide (Ge-Sb-S) amorphous thin films and nano wires have been directly deposited and patterned on SiO2-on-silicon substrates by means of chemical vapour deposition, e-beam lithography and dry etching. The Ge-Sb-S thin films were [...]
Improved Methodology to Nucleate ZnxCd1-xSe cladded ZnyCd1-ySe Quantum Dots using PMP-MOCVD for Lasers and Electroluminescent Phosphors
improvement in uniformity of dots nucleated by a methodology which preheats the reaction zone prior to the initiation of Microwave Plasma in a metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD)
Synthesis of Nanostructures in Chlorine-Containing Media
Zaginaichenko S.Yu., Dubovoy A.G., Institute for Problems of Materials Science of NAS of Ukraine, UA
Modification of carbon nanostructures by different chemical elements opens an opportunity for synthesis of materials of a new generation for different applications. Filling carbon nanotubes with one or other element will allow for conferring different [...]
Synthesis of Carbon Nanostructures in Liquid Helium
Schur D.V., Bogolepov V.A., Savenko A.F., Institute for Problems of Materials Science of NAS of Ukraine, UA
At present synthesis of carbon nanostructures is mainly performed in different scientific groups by any one method. For this reason not everyone has possibility to compare peculiarities of synthesis of the same product by different [...]
Preparation and applications of transition metal oxide nanofibres and nanolines
Recently many nanoscale silica structures have been suggested for optics device design. For example silica nanoneedles are used for focusing light into spot some tens of nanometers in diameter and sub-wavelength diameter silica fibres are [...]
Some Properties of Electro-Deposited Fullerene Coatings
Ershova O.G., Khotynenko N.G., Golovko E.I., Pishuk V.K., Mil’to O.V., Kopylova L.I., Vlasenko A.Yu., Institute for Problems of Materials Science of NAS of Ukraine, UA
Earlier we have demonstrated the principal possibility to produce fullerene-containing coatings on metal electrodes by the electrochemical method and the dependence of their structure on the chemical composition of the working solution and experimental conditions. [...]
Optical properties of [001] GaN nanowires- An ab-initio study
We study the physical properties of the unpassivated and H-passivated GaN nanowires (NWs) by employing the first–principles pseudopotential method within density functional theory (DFT). Two types of the NW’s having hexagonal and triangular cross-sections have [...]
Synthesis and Propertie of CNT Yarns and Sheets
We have developed an automated CVD process based on gas phase pyrolysis for the synthesis of high strength carbon nanotubes based sheets and yarns. This has led to a unique process for continuous production of [...]
Morphological, Crystalline and Photo-luminescent Property of Zinc Oxide Nanorod Array Controlled by Zinc Oxide Sol-gel Thin Film
Our work provides a systematic study of controllable morphology, crystallinity and photoluminescence (PL) of ZnO nanorod array. Our investigation demonstrates that the pre-treatment conditions of the ZnO sol-gel thin-film have strong influences on the morphology, [...]
Synthesis of uniform ZnO nanowire arrays over a large area
It has been found that Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires have great potential in many applications. Currently, the most commonly used method to grow ZnO nanowires is to use the vapor transport method. The morphology of [...]
Low temperature synthesis and characterization of large scale ZnMgO nanowire architectures
Large scale hexagonal ZnMgO nanowire array and network with tunable shapes has been successfully synthesized on solid Si substrate, and flexible substrates (Au and Pd coated plastic substrates) using low temperature hydrothermal synthesis technique. The [...]
Growth _–Fe2O3 nanowires with different crystal direction of iron film
–Fe2O3 nanowires (NWs) were synthesis from different crystal direction of iron film by thermal oxidation in oven. The crystal direction of iron film was successfully control by sputtering 50 nm iron on different direction of [...]
A simple route to synthesize impurity-free high-oriented SiOx nanowires
Impurity-free silicon oxide nanowires were synthesized on a 3 cm x 3 cm alumina plate uniformly by thermal evaporation of a mixture of powder of graphite powders and Si-SiOx particles under argon atmosphere with a [...]
Fabrication of Nanoparticle Embedded Polymer Nanorod by Template Based Electrodeposition
Kang S-W, Kang W-S, Nam G-H, Kim H-S, Kim J.H., Kim K-J, Kim H-S, Kim J.H., Kim K-J, Kang S-W, Kang W-S, Kim H-S, Kim J.H., Kim K-J, Ajou University, KR
Inorganic semiconductor materials in nano-dimension have drawn intense attention in recent years because of their size-tunable optoelectronic properties arising from the quantum confinement effect. These materials often require to be incorporated into other materials, often [...]
Magnetic Nanowires based Reciprocal & Non-reciprocal devices for Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC)
Transition metals and their alloys have magnetic properties suitable for electronic applications, especially in the microwave range, such as circulators, isolators and filters. Arrays of Ni nanowires were electrodeposited into alumina oxide templates with various [...]
Phonon-assisted tunnelling mechanism of conduction in SnO2 and ZnO nanowires
Non-linear temperature-dependent current-voltages characteristics of SnO2 nanowires measured by Ma et al [2005 Solid State Commun 130 313] and single ZnO nanorods from {J.Y. Park et al., 2006 Nanotechnology 17 1255] are explained by the [...]
Synthesis and Characterization of Templated Si-based Nanowires for Electrical Transport
Lee J-H., Carpenter M., Eisenbraun E., Xue Y., Geer R., University at Albany - State University of New York, US
Self-assembled Si nanowires (SiNWs) have been synthesized and characterized as a template for surface metal silicide formation to investigate confinement of electron transport at the nanowire surface. Silicon nanowires with diameters ranging from 5 to [...]
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: 3, Nanotechnology 2008: Microsystems, Photonics, Sensors, Fluidics, Modeling, and Simulation – Technical Proceedings of the 2008 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Volume 3
Published: June 1, 2008
Industry sectors: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing | Sensors, MEMS, Electronics
Topic: Photonic Materials & Devices
ISBN: 978-1-4200-8505-1