In this chapter we describe the preparation of polyimide thin films by physical vapour deposition and comment on their potential application as a pure material or a thin layer matrix for producing nanocomposite layers. Their superb properties, such as a low dielectric constant, high thermaland photo-stability, high chemical resistance and high optical transmittance predetermine their widespread...

Current biotechnology and sensor research has enhanced the drive to establish viable methods for depositing high-quality polymer thin films. In this research, thin films of poly methyl methacrylate PMMA were prepared by matrix-assisted pulsed-laser evaporation MAPLE . Up to 2 wt % of carbon nanotubes were subsequently added to MAPLE target systems for deposition of polymer nanocomposite films. ...

We present a method to measure the in-plane thermal conductivity of thin films by the laser flash technique. The method uses a well-defined structure for the analysis. We have realized the structure by conformal deposition of ZnO films of different thicknesses using atomic layer deposition onto a 20 μm thick ion track etched polycarbonate membrane as substrate. By using this procedure we could ...

*Correspondence: Mohammed Es-Souni , Institute for Materials and Surface Technology, University of Applied Sciences, Grenzstrasse 3, Kiel, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Supported anodized alumina template films with highly ordered porosity are best suited for fabricating large-area ordered nanostructures with tunable dimensions and aspect ratios. In this paper, we first discuss important issues...

Magnetoelectric composite thin films hold substantial promise for applications in novel multifunctional devices. However, there are presently shortcomings for both the extensively studied bilayer epitaxial (2-2) and vertically architectured nanocomposite (1-3) film systems, restricting their applications. Here we design a novel growth strategy to fabricate an architectured nanocomposite heteros...

Submitted for the MAR08 Meeting of The American Physical Society Self-Assembled Epitaxial Multiferroic Nanocomposite Films Prepared by Polymer-Assisted Deposition1 HONGMEI LUO, HAO YANG, EVE BAUER, T. MARK MCCLESKEY, ANTHONY K. BURRELL, QUANXI JIA, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 — Multiferroic materials, which show simultaneous ...

The electrostatic assembly of nanocomposite thin films consisting of alternating layers of an organometallic redox polymer (RP) and oxidoreductase enzymes, glucose oxidase (GOX), lactate oxidase (LOX) and pyruvate oxidase (PYX), was investigated. Multilayer nanostructures were fabricated on gold surfaces by the deposition of an anionic self-assembled monolayer of 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid, fol...

Miniaturization of passive components, while mounting them close to the active devices to form ultrathin high-performance power and RF modules, is a key enabler for next-generation multifunctional miniaturized systems. Traditional microscale materials do not lead to adequate enhancement in volumetric densities to miniaturize passive components as thin films or thin integrated passive devices. W...

BiFeO3–CoFe2O4 nanocomposite thin films R. Muralidharan, N. Dix, V. Skumryev, M. Varela, F. Sánchez, and J. Fontcuberta Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Spain Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain Departament de Física Aplicada i Òptica and Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB), Universitat de Barcelon...

Highly ordered radially aligned microchannels are produced on the surface of polymer nanocomposite thin films via droplet evaporation. This simple, rapid, and cost-effective approach opens a new avenue for producing macroscopic surface patterns that have potential as scaffolds or substrates in the field of microelectronics or microfluidic-based biochips.