Alternative Fabrication Process for Nanostructured Alloys Promises Dramatic Cost Reduction

Nanostructured Origami 3d Fabrication and Self Assembly Process for Soldier Combat Systems

The Nanostructured Origami 3D Fabrication and Assembly Process is a method of manufacturing 3D nanosystems using exclusively 2D lithography tools. The 3D structure is obtained by folding a nanopatterned 2D substrate. We report on the materials, actuation and modeling aspects of the manufacturing process, and present experimental results from fabricated structures.

Microstructure of nanostructured amorphous Si-Au-alloys

Obstacles to applications of nanostructured thermoelectric alloys

A major theme in thermoelectric research is based on controlling the formation of nanostructures that occur naturally in bulk intermetallic alloys through various types of thermodynamic phase transformation processes (He et al., 2013). The question of how such nanostructures form and why they lead to a high thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) are scientifically interesting and worthy of attenti...

Accelerated sintering in phase-separating nanostructured alloys

Sintering of powders is a common means of producing bulk materials when melt casting is impossible or does not achieve a desired microstructure, and has long been pursued for nanocrystalline materials in particular. Acceleration of sintering is desirable to lower processing temperatures and times, and thus to limit undesirable microstructure evolution. Here we show that markedly enhanced sinter...

Particle Reduction at Metal Deposition Process in Wafer Fabrication

Metal Deposition or metallization process is one of the processes in fabricating a wafer. A wafer is a thin slice of semiconductor material, such as a silicon crystal, used in the fabrication of integrated circuits and other micro-devices. Due to the nature on the process, it creates lot of particles, which would impact the next process if it were not removed. Particle deposition on the wafer s...