Low-cost formation of bulk and localized polymer-derived carbon nanodomains from polydimethylsiloxane

• Juan Carlos Castro Alcántara,
• Mariana Cerda Zorrilla,
• Lucia Cabriales,
• Luis Manuel León Rossano and
• Mathieu Hautefeuille

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 744–748, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.76

• Universitaria, D.F. México, México 10.3762/bjnano.6.76 Abstract We present two simple alternative methods to form polymer-derived carbon nanodomains in a controlled fashion and at low cost, using custom-made chemical vapour deposition and selective laser ablation with a commercial CD-DVD platform. Both

• promising for the formation of carbon nanoresidues with controlled properties and in applications where high integration is desired. Keywords: carbon nanodomains; nanodots; polydimethylsiloxane; polymer-derived ceramics; Raman spectroscopy; Introduction Silicon-based polymer-derived ceramics (PDC) are of

• through the chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technique by using alcohols as reagent for carbon sources. For instance, aliphatic alcohols or mixtures of ethanol and methanol with other substances such as ferrocenes may also be used, depending on the type of the desired carbon nanodomains [4][5]. Laser