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Nanolithographic Manipulated Cutting of Aligned Metal Oxide Nanowires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

L.J. Campbell ,
Y.X. Chen  and
W.L. Zhou
L.J. Campbell
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148.
Y.X. Chen
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148.
W.L. Zhou
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148.
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Abstract

Controlling the characteristics of nanowires in order to later construct nanoarchitecture and nanocomponents for nanodevice and nanosensor applications is essential. Metal oxide nanowires are aligned using the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique to uniaxially compress the nanowires. A surfactant monolayer of metal oxide nanowires is fabricated, and then compressed on an aqueous subphase. The compression yields an array of aligned nanowires, which is transferred to a planar substrate. Cutting areas of the array are defined by electron beam nanolithography. After an etching process, it is shown that the metal oxide nanowires have been successfully cut. With further refinement of this technique, the nanowires can be used to construct basic building blocks of nanodevices and nanosensors.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 818: Symposium M – Nanoparticles and Nanowire Building Blocks-Synthesis, Processing, Characterization and Theory , 2004 , M4.6.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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