Review of sol-gel thin film formation

Sol‐gel silicate thin‐film electronic properties

BaFe12O19 thin film grown by an aqueous sol-gel process

In this communication we present a new sol–gel route to obtain high quality BaFe12O19 thin films. X-ray analysis confirmed the crystal structure with a crystal size of 32 nm. Atomic force microscopy images determined the film thickness to be around 250 nm and a roughness factor of less than 40 nm where the grain size averaged around 150 nm. SQUID magnetometer data shows a magnetic behavior simi...

Thin-film silica sol-gel coatings for neural microelectrodes.

The reactive tissue response of the brain to chronically implanted materials remains a formidable obstacle to stable recording from implanted microelectrodes. One approach to mitigate this response is to apply a bioactive coating in the form of an ultra-porous silica sol-gel, which can be engineered to improve biocompatibility and to enable local drug delivery. The first step in establishing th...

Switching devices in sol–gel hybrid thin film technology

Article history: Development of non-volatil Received 13 September 2006 Received in revised form 10 February 2009 Accepted 12 February 2009 Available online 27 February 2009

Sol-gel Thin Film Based Sensors and Biosensors

A wide variety of enhanced and modified sol-gel bulk and thin film processes for the development of sensors and biosensors have been witnessed in the last two decades. The porous silica glass material prepared by the sol-gel process is a promising host matrix for the encapsulation of various biomolecules viz. proteins, antibodies, enzymes. The entrapped biomolecules have shown to retain their f...