A collisional model for AFM manipulation of rigid nanoparticles

• Enrico Gnecco

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 158–162, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.19

• direction of motion of arbitrarily shaped nanoparticles is important for the guided formation of nanostructures. An interesting analogy is found with AFM nanolithography. In a recent paper we have shown that the patterning of amorphous polymers can be ‘tuned’ by varying the scan path of an AFM tip which

Aerosol assisted fabrication of two dimensional ZnO island arrays and honeycomb patterns with identical lattice structures

• Mitsuhiro Numata and
• Yoshihiro Koide

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 71–74, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.9

• -dimensional photonic crystals (PhCs) [7][8][9]. To this end, a number of techniques, including an atomic layer epitaxy [10], chemical vapor deposition [11], and photoresist patterning [12][13], have been used to deposit various morphologies of ZnO patterns on substrates. There is intense current interest in

Flash laser annealing for controlling size and shape of magnetic alloy nanoparticles

• Damien Alloyeau,
• Christian Ricolleau,
• Cyril Langlois,
• Yann Le Bouar and
• Annick Loiseau

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 55–59, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.7

• produce organized CoPt or any bimetallic NPs on a substrate, by using an accurate patterning of the light field intensity designed by masks or gratings lithography [14][31]. Schematic representation of the experimental setup: the sample is placed behind the back focal plane of a convergent lens. The