Nanomanipulation and electrical behaviour of a single gold nanowire using in-situ SEM-FIB-nanomanipulators

In Situ SEM Nanomanipulation and Nanomechanical/Electrical Characterization

Mapping the Complex Morphology of Cell Interactions with Nanowire Substrates Using FIB-SEM

Using high resolution focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) we study the details of cell-nanostructure interactions using serial block face imaging. 3T3 Fibroblast cellular monolayers are cultured on flat glass as a control surface and on two types of nanostructured scaffold substrates made from silicon black (Nanograss) with low- and high nanowire density. After culturing for...

The SEM-FIB Workbench

The Nanorobotics series developed by Klocke Nanotechnik extend Scanning Electron or Ion Microscopes to material processing systems. The included automation allows the whole field of handling, assembly and manufacturing like known from a normal desktop system – now with nano-precision, including various kinds of image generation by using different sensors. Applications are in the field of Materi...

Enhancing Materials and Device Analysis Capability in the SEM and FIB-SEM by using a Nanomanipulator

Nanomanipulators, whilst commonly used to lift out TEM samples prepared in the FIB, have a number of other potential applications and can aid in the chemical and crystallographic analysis of samples. Here, we discuss some of these alternative uses of nanomanipulators and show how they enable the EDS and EBSD analysis of thin samples in the FIB-SEM as well as serve as electrical probes and enabl...

Electrical characterization of suspended gold nanowire bridges

In this paper, a very simple top-down fabrication method, which is compatible with standard silicon (Si) fabrication processes, is proposed to fabricate new suspended gold nanowire bridges with flexible designs. The electrical characteristics of the nanowire bridges which include the V–I curve, thermoresistive and impedance spectra change before and after nanowire bridges release and resistivit...