| Author(s): |
Babak Nikoobakht; |
| Title: |
Surface-directed Growth of Nanowires: A Scalable Platform for Nanodevice Fabrication |
| Published: |
July 11, 2011 |
| Abstract: |
Optical lithography continues to be the popular technique for further miniaturization of electronic circuitry and its components. However, as further device miniaturization continues, complexity of pattern generation and cost increase; therefore the use of such techniques become dominantly specific to high-end applications such as microprocessor manufacturing. As an alternative, nanomaterials and non-conventional nanofabrication methods such as “bottom-up” chemical approaches offer great opportunities in producing useful nanostructure-based devices with potential advantages such as enhanced performance and/or lower cost. Majority of the produced nanomaterials for device applications require post processing “e.g.” transfer from a source- to a target substrate. For composite structures this transfer is not a concern, but for producing intricate nanodevices with a large scale hierarchical order, this step becomes a bottleneck as it requires knowledge on surface registries of a large group of nanocrystals on a given surface that is needed for the succeeding fabrication steps. |
| Citation: |
Nanowires |
| Publisher: |
Intech Publishing, Vienna, -1 |
| Pages: |
pp. 245 - 266 |
| Keywords: |
Nanowire; nanofabrication; light emitting diode; field-effect transistor; directed growth; nanomaterial; bottom-up chemical approaches |
| Research Areas: |
Nanotechnology |
