Electric field assisted nanoparticle assembly

Author

Razavi, Baharak ; Martin, Benjamin R. ; Mallouk, Thomas E. ; Jackson, Thomas N.

Author_Institution

Center for Thin Film Devices & Mater. Res. Inst., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

318

Lastpage

321

Abstract

In our electric field assisted assembly work, an AC electric field is used to align metallic nanowires to photolithographically defined electrodes. The metallic nanowires are fabricated by electroplating single or multiple metals in the pores of aluminum oxide or polymer membranes. After plating, the membrane is dissolved and the freed metallic nanowires are suspended in a fluid. This approach allows a large number (typically ~10⁹-10¹⁰ in our labscale work) of nanowires to be quickly and easily fabricated

Keywords

electric field effects; electroplating; nanostructured materials; nanotechnology; AC coupled electrodes; AC electric field; Al oxide membrane pores; electric field alignment; electric field assisted assembly; electroplating; fluid cell; metallic nanowires; multiple step heterogeneous nanocomponent assembly; photolithographically defined electrodes; polymer membrane pores; selective assembly; Aluminum; Assembly; Bars; Biomembranes; Dielectric substrates; Electric fields; Electrodes; Gold; Nanoscale devices; Nanowires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, 2001 International

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7432-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISDRS.2001.984504

Filename

984504