Intended to update scientists and engineers on the current state of the art in a variety of key techniques used extensively in the fabrication of structures at the nanoscale. The present work covers the essentia
In the development of the past few decades, nanofabrication technology has promoted the rapid development of integrated circuits and realized the high integration of devices. The main difference between nano-processing technology and traditional processing technology is that the size of the device structur...
As an alternative strategy, bottom-up self-assembly applies techniques of chemical assembly and molecular recognition to bring together individual atoms, molecules, or supramolecular building blocks to form useful constructs. This massively parallel method will be useful for producing well-defined ...
Ultra-thin resists provide the best resolution for near-field techniques because the entire resist thickness remains within the rapidly diverging optical near-field. To this end, a significant amount of work has gone into developing self-assembled monolayer (SAM) photoresists. As depicted in Figure...
Recent advances in growth techniques have enabled the synthesis of high-quality large area films of 2D materials beyond graphene. As a result, nanofabrication methods must be developed for high-resolution and precise processing of these atomically thin materials. These developments are critical both for...
Recent advances in growth techniques have enabled the synthesis of high-quality large area films of 2D materials beyond graphene. As a result, nanofabrication methods must be developed for high-resolution and precise processing of these atomically thin materials. These developments are critical both for...
(PnP) is one of the promising techniques that generates 3D optical holographic images and transforms them into material structures through a lithographic process. Using conformal and transparent phase masks as a key factor, the PnP process has advantages in terms of stability, uniformity, and ...
The chapter on self assembly synthesis from low dimensional building blocks such as DNA, viruses, and proteins provides an overview of fabrication techniques to obtain a usable structure such as sensors. This section also describes techniques to create synthetic collagen for tissue engineering. ...
FIB-SEM serial-sectioning, and/or other 3D imaging techniques (such as micro/nano X-ray computed tomography (micro-/nano-CT)), are becoming more popular in the petroleum industry’s petrophysical labs to image shales in 3D and replicate their nanoporous structure into digital rock 3D models ...
Nanofabrication process refers to the creation of designed nanostructures with dimensions less than 100 nm, using various synthesis techniques such as co-precipitation, sol-gel, hydrothermal, and ball-milling. This process focuses on the use of nanoparticles in complex multifunctional devices. ...