The processing techniques for micro and nano devices fabrication can be divided into two groups. On one hand, there are the techniques that allow the modification of a given substrate, e.g. ionic implantation, metallization, etching and thermal processes to either grow or deposit insulator layers. On the other hand, there are the processes that allow a pattern transfer of the designs onto the s...

Transmission electron microscope (TEM) has emerged as a very powerful tool for probing the structure of metals and alloys because of its capability to provide morphological information, crystallographic details, and chemical composition of phases distributed on a very fine scale in a given microstructure. Convergent beam electron diffraction, nano or micro beam diffraction and selected area dif...

The broad development of the microand nano-technologies in the past few years increased the need of techniques capable of fabricating sub-micron structures with arbitrary surface profiles. Out of the several fabrication approaches (HEBS lithography, laser writing, etc.) the electron beam writing stands out as the one capable of the highest resolution, superior alignment accuracy and very small ...

Quickly developing nanotechnology drives the industrial need for fast but sensitive nano-scale feature detection and evaluation. In this work we bypass the diffraction limit for achieving nanoscale sensitivity by introducing optical singularities into the illuminating beam for a modified laser scanning microscopic architecture. A good correspondence was obtained between laboratory experiments a...

In this study, polyaniline-graphene composites with different nano-structures are synthesized and the behaviour of the obtained composites serving as electrode materials in electrochemical capacitors is studied. The morphology, crystal structure, and thermal stability of the composites are examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Thermal gravimetric analys...

This paper introduces a new methodology for the fabrication of strain-sensor elements for MEMS and NEMS applications based on the tunneling effect in nano-granular metals. The strain-sensor elements are prepared by the maskless lithography technique of focused electron-beam-induced deposition (FEBID) employing the precursor trimethylmethylcyclopentadienyl platinum [MeCpPt(Me)(3)]. We use a cant...

Introduction: The present study aimed to evaluate the impact of PbO nano and micro-sized fillers on ordinary and heavy concretes for different photon energies. Material and Methods: The MCNPX Monte Carlo code (version 2.6.0) was used for all simulations in the present study. A model of narrow-beam geometry was validated and utilized to calcul...

Proton beam writing (PBW) is a new direct-write technique developed at Centre for Ion Beam Applications, National University of Singapore for creating three-dimensional, high aspect ratio microand nano-structures with straight and smooth sidewalls in resits, polymers, glasses, and other materials. Here we present some results of our initial efforts on the direct writing of photonic structures i...

Site-controlled InAs nano dots were successfully fabricated by a STMBE system (in situ scanning tunneling microscopy during molecular beam epitaxy growth) at substrate temperatures from 50 to 430°C. After 1.5 ML of the InAs wetting layer (WL) growth by ordinal Stranski-Krastanov dot fabrication procedures, we applied voltage at particular sites on the InAs WL, creating the site where In atoms, ...