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Scanning transmission imaging in the helium ion microscope using a microchannel plate with a delay line detector

  • Eduardo Serralta,
  • Nico Klingner,
  • Olivier De Castro,
  • Michael Mousley,
  • Santhana Eswara,
  • Serge Duarte Pinto,
  • Tom Wirtz and
  • Gregor Hlawacek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1854–1864, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.167

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  • microscopy; scanning transmission ion microscopy; Introduction The helium ion microscope (HIM) is an instrument that has already proven its value for high-resolution imaging, compositional analysis, nanofabrication, and materials modification [1][2]. It generates a focused helium (or neon) ion beam with sub
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Published 11 Dec 2020

Electron beam-induced deposition of platinum from Pt(CO)2Cl2 and Pt(CO)2Br2

  • Aya Mahgoub,
  • Hang Lu,
  • Rachel M. Thorman,
  • Konstantin Preradovic,
  • Titel Jurca,
  • Lisa McElwee-White,
  • Howard Fairbrother and
  • Cornelis W. Hagen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1789–1800, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.161

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  • -dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX); focused electron beam-induced deposition (FEBID); nanofabrication; platinum precursors; scanning electron microscopy (SEM); thermogravimetric analysis (TGA); Introduction Focused electron beam-induced deposition (FEBID) is a direct-write nanopatterning technique. FEBID
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Published 27 Nov 2020

Direct observation of the Si(110)-(16×2) surface reconstruction by atomic force microscopy

  • Tatsuya Yamamoto,
  • Ryo Izumi,
  • Kazushi Miki,
  • Takahiro Yamasaki,
  • Yasuhiro Sugawara and
  • Yan Jun Li

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1750–1756, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.157

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  • ) Phase A shows an actual phase relationship of the 16×2 reconstruction. (b) In phase B, pentagon pairs on the lower terrace are shifted by a half cycle (16×1) along the zig-zag row. Acknowledgements A part of this study was supported by NIMS Nanofabrication Platform in Nanotechnology Platform Project
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Published 19 Nov 2020

Out-of-plane surface patterning by subsurface processing of polymer substrates with focused ion beams

  • Serguei Chiriaev,
  • Luciana Tavares,
  • Vadzim Adashkevich,
  • Arkadiusz J. Goszczak and
  • Horst-Günter Rubahn

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1693–1703, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.151

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  • irradiation-induced mechanical strain in the patterning process are elaborated and discussed. Keywords: direct patterning; focused helium ion beam; out-of-plane nanopatterning; polymers; thin films; Introduction Micro- and nanofabrication with focused ion beams (FIBs) is currently a subject of strong
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Published 06 Nov 2020

Optically and electrically driven nanoantennas

  • Monika Fleischer,
  • Dai Zhang and
  • Alfred J. Meixner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1542–1545, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.136

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  • , Germany 10.3762/bjnano.11.136 Keywords: active plasmonics; electrically driven nanoantenna; gap antenna; nanoantenna; nanofabrication; nanospectroscopy; nano-photonics; optical antenna; second harmonic generation; sensing; scanning tip; surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA); surface-enhanced Raman
  • , etc. (a few nanometers to below 1 nm). Nanoantennas have been under examination for the past few decades in view of their attractive fundamental properties, while the rapid development of nanofabrication techniques has opened up possibilities to create more and more sophisticated shapes and
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Published 07 Oct 2020

A wideband cryogenic microwave low-noise amplifier

  • Boris I. Ivanov,
  • Dmitri I. Volkhin,
  • Ilya L. Novikov,
  • Dmitri K. Pitsun,
  • Dmitri O. Moskalev,
  • Ilya A. Rodionov,
  • Evgeni Il’ichev and
  • Aleksey G. Vostretsov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1484–1491, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.131

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  • coupled to a single qubit. The sample was made at the BMSTU Nanofabrication Facility (FMN Laboratory, FMNS REC, ID 74300) using Al technology [29][30]. The X-mon qubit was made of two Al/AlxOy/Al parallel Josephson junctions forming a SQUID-type structure coupled to the main ground plane. The standard
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Published 30 Sep 2020

3D superconducting hollow nanowires with tailored diameters grown by focused He+ beam direct writing

  • Rosa Córdoba,
  • Alfonso Ibarra,
  • Dominique Mailly,
  • Isabel Guillamón,
  • Hermann Suderow and
  • José María De Teresa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1198–1206, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.104

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  • that gave rise to these results received the support of a fellowship from ”la Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434). The fellowship code is LCF/BQ/PR19/11700008. The French RENATECH network (French national nanofabrication platform).
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Published 11 Aug 2020

Electrochemical nanostructuring of (111) oriented GaAs crystals: from porous structures to nanowires

  • Elena I. Monaico,
  • Eduard V. Monaico,
  • Veaceslav V. Ursaki,
  • Shashank Honnali,
  • Vitalie Postolache,
  • Karin Leistner,
  • Kornelius Nielsch and
  • Ion M. Tiginyanu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 966–975, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.81

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  • Electrochemical technology became an established and cost-effective approach for the preparation of porous semiconductor matrices and arrays of nanowires with tailored architecture at the submicrometer scale [1][2][3]. Semiconductor nanotemplates provide many possibilities for nanofabrication through
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Published 29 Jun 2020

Integrated photonics multi-waveguide devices for optical trapping and Raman spectroscopy: design, fabrication and performance demonstration

  • Gyllion B. Loozen,
  • Arnica Karuna,
  • Mohammad M. R. Fanood,
  • Erik Schreuder and
  • Jacob Caro

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 829–842, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.68

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  • waveguides. Keywords: Brownian motion; integrated optics devices; lab-on-a-chip; optical trapping; nanofabrication; Raman spectroscopy; ridge waveguides; Introduction Photonic lab-on-a-chip (LOC) techniques strongly attract attention for the manipulation and measurement of biological particles such as
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Published 27 May 2020

Deterministic placement of ultra-bright near-infrared color centers in arrays of silicon carbide micropillars

  • Stefania Castelletto,
  • Abdul Salam Al Atem,
  • Faraz Ahmed Inam,
  • Hans Jürgen von Bardeleben,
  • Sophie Hameau,
  • Ahmed Fahad Almutairi,
  • Gérard Guillot,
  • Shin-ichiro Sato,
  • Alberto Boretti and
  • Jean Marie Bluet

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2383–2395, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.229

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  • platform for the integration of these quantum systems in large-scale complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible wafers. Also, SiC is suitable for nanofabrication [18][19], and can be controlled through its electronic and piezoelectric properties. Further, it has great potentials for
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Published 05 Dec 2019

The importance of design in nanoarchitectonics: multifractality in MACE silicon nanowires

  • Stefania Carapezzi and
  • Anna Cavallini

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2094–2102, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.204

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  • nanoarchitectures generated by NWs or other elemental nanobjects the self-assembly/self-organization mechanisms are pivotal to generate the assembled structures. In fact, the direct fabrication of such structures by microfabrication or even nanofabrication approaches would be challenging or impossible, given the
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Published 31 Oct 2019

Review of advanced sensor devices employing nanoarchitectonics concepts

  • Katsuhiko Ariga,
  • Tatsuyuki Makita,
  • Masato Ito,
  • Taizo Mori,
  • Shun Watanabe and
  • Jun Takeya

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2014–2030, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.198

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  • advancements in sensor technology are no longer limited by progress in microfabrication and nanofabrication of device structures – opening a new avenue for highly engineered, high performing sensor systems through the application of nanoarchitectonics concepts. Keywords: interface; molecular recognition
  • on advancements in microfabrication and nanofabrication of device structures. These so-called nanotechnological advancements enable us to prepare sensing devices with various advantageous features with an ultrasmall device size (thus requiring an ultrasmall amount of the target sample), highly
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Published 16 Oct 2019

Precise local control of liquid crystal pretilt on polymer layers by focused ion beam nanopatterning

  • Maxim V. Gorkunov,
  • Irina V. Kasyanova,
  • Vladimir V. Artemov,
  • Alena V. Mamonova and
  • Serguei P. Palto

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1691–1697, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.164

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  • : The possibility of nanofabrication of polymer substrates supporting an arbitrary (from planar to vertical) spatially inhomogeneous liquid crystal alignment opens up prospects of “imprinting” electrically tunable versatile metasurfaces constituting lenses, prisms and q-plates. Keywords: focused ion
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Published 12 Aug 2019

Development of a new hybrid approach combining AFM and SEM for the nanoparticle dimensional metrology

  • Loïc Crouzier,
  • Alexandra Delvallée,
  • Sébastien Ducourtieux,
  • Laurent Devoille,
  • Guillaume Noircler,
  • Christian Ulysse,
  • Olivier Taché,
  • Elodie Barruet,
  • Christophe Tromas and
  • Nicolas Feltin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1523–1536, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.150

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  • letters) compatible with AFM and SEM. These chips were produced in collaboration with the nanofabrication laboratory CNRS/C2N. They enable the quick identification of an area of interest with a set of NPs to be measured with both techniques. The marks are etched in silicon wafer, so the surface is
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Published 26 Jul 2019

Fabrication of phase masks from amorphous carbon thin films for electron-beam shaping

  • Lukas Grünewald,
  • Dagmar Gerthsen and
  • Simon Hettler

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1290–1302, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.128

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  • ; Bessel beam; electron-beam shaping; nanofabrication; vortex beam; Introduction The possibility to shape electron beams has gained much interest since the first observation of electron vortex beams, i.e., beams that carry a defined orbital angular momentum [1][2][3]. Various other beam shapes, e.g., non
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Published 25 Jun 2019

A silver-nanoparticle/cellulose-nanofiber composite as a highly effective substrate for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

  • Yongxin Lu,
  • Yan Luo,
  • Zehao Lin and
  • Jianguo Huang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1270–1279, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.126

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  • stepping up from “nanofabrication” to “nanoarchitectonics” [1]. Nanoarchitectonics as a novel paradigm to create specific materials by assembling the corresponding nanoscale building blocks was first proposed by M. Aono and co-workers in the year 2000 [2][3]. The concept has been recently extended
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Published 24 Jun 2019

Experimental study of an evanescent-field biosensor based on 1D photonic bandgap structures

  • Jad Sabek,
  • Francisco Javier Díaz-Fernández,
  • Luis Torrijos-Morán,
  • Zeneida Díaz-Betancor,
  • Ángel Maquieira,
  • María-José Bañuls,
  • Elena Pinilla-Cienfuegos and
  • Jaime García-Rupérez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 967–974, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.97

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  • increase by a factor about three. Experimental For the creation of the photonic chips, a standard nanofabrication process optimized in our clean-room facilities has been used [11]. E-beam lithography with 100 keV acceleration voltage was used to expose the created chip layout onto a 100 nm thick hydrogen
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Published 26 Apr 2019

Nanoscale optical and structural characterisation of silk

  • Meguya Ryu,
  • Reo Honda,
  • Adrian Cernescu,
  • Arturas Vailionis,
  • Armandas Balčytis,
  • Jitraporn Vongsvivut,
  • Jing-Liang Li,
  • Denver P. Linklater,
  • Elena P. Ivanova,
  • Vygantas Mizeikis,
  • Mark J. Tobin,
  • Junko Morikawa and
  • Saulius Juodkazis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 922–929, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.93

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  • , Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 4328561, Japan Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI), School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan Melbourne Center for Nanofabrication, Australian National Fabrication Facility, Clayton 3168
  • Recent advances in the nanofabrication of electronic devices require cutting-edge analytical technologies to provide a reliable structural characterisation of materials at the nanoscale. Such technologies are particularly important to probe molecular properties of cross sections smaller than 100 nm in
  • all three dimensions, which is of rapidly growing interest in the field of nanotechnology. Electronic chip manufacturing is currently introducing the sub-10 nm fabrication node (a half pitch of a grating pattern) in the development of 3D fin-gates of field-effect transistors. Nanofabrication
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Published 23 Apr 2019

Fabrication of silver nanoisland films by pulsed laser deposition for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

  • Bogusław Budner,
  • Mariusz Kuźma,
  • Barbara Nasiłowska,
  • Bartosz Bartosewicz,
  • Malwina Liszewska and
  • Bartłomiej J. Jankiewicz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 882–893, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.89

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  • . Keywords: nanofabrication; pulsed laser deposition; SERS substrates; silver nanoisland films; surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Introduction In recent years, SERS has been intensively investigated as a sensing tool in many applications [1][2][3]. Of particular interest
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Published 16 Apr 2019

Charged particle single nanometre manufacturing

  • Philip D. Prewett,
  • Cornelis W. Hagen,
  • Claudia Lenk,
  • Steve Lenk,
  • Marcus Kaestner,
  • Tzvetan Ivanov,
  • Ahmad Ahmad,
  • Ivo W. Rangelow,
  • Xiaoqing Shi,
  • Stuart A. Boden,
  • Alex P. G. Robinson,
  • Dongxu Yang,
  • Sangeetha Hari,
  • Marijke Scotuzzi and
  • Ejaz Huq

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2855–2882, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.266

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  • EBID for reliable nanofabrication has required several issues to be addressed, such as different kinds of proximity effects [58][59] leading to deposit broadening while patterning dense lines and dots, variation of deposit morphology as a function of the beam current and precursor flux [60], and the
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Published 14 Nov 2018

Nanostructure-induced performance degradation of WO3·nH2O for energy conversion and storage devices

  • Zhenyin Hai,
  • Mohammad Karbalaei Akbari,
  • Zihan Wei,
  • Danfeng Cui,
  • Chenyang Xue,
  • Hongyan Xu,
  • Philippe M. Heynderickx,
  • Francis Verpoort and
  • Serge Zhuiykov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2845–2854, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.265

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  • : Coloration/bleaching during electrochemical cycling. Acknowledgements The work was supported by the Research and Development Program of the Ghent University Global Campus, South Korea. This work was supported in part by the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in the Victoria Node of the Australian
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Published 12 Nov 2018

Low cost tips for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy fabricated by two-step electrochemical etching of 125 µm diameter gold wires

  • Antonino Foti,
  • Francesco Barreca,
  • Enza Fazio,
  • Cristiano D’Andrea,
  • Paolo Matteini,
  • Onofrio Maria Maragò and
  • Pietro Giuseppe Gucciardi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2718–2729, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.254

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  • intrinsically scalable and tips of any kind of material can be used, but the reproducibility is low and the field enhancement is not excellent. Nanofabrication methods guarantee optimal control of the dimensions and reproducibility, but they are serial techniques, i.e., slow, and fabrication costs are high. In
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Published 22 Oct 2018

Silencing the second harmonic generation from plasmonic nanodimers: A comprehensive discussion

  • Jérémy Butet,
  • Gabriel D. Bernasconi and
  • Olivier J. F. Martin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2674–2683, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.250

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  • ]. Indeed, although important progress has been made in nanofabrication, it still impossible to fabricate nanostructures of perfect shape and, for real experiments, one must consider the influence of shape variations of the nanostructures on SHG. This issue has been thoroughly considered in the case of SHG
  • , the case of gold dimers made of rectangular arms is considered, Figure 7a. The purpose is to show that the observations made for cylindrical nanorods still stand for other geometries. Both geometries can be obtained with specific nanofabrication techniques. While cylindrical nanorods would be the
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Published 15 Oct 2018

Two-dimensional semiconductors pave the way towards dopant-based quantum computing

  • José Carlos Abadillo-Uriel,
  • Belita Koiller and
  • María José Calderón

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2668–2673, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.249

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  • 21941-972, Brazil 10.3762/bjnano.9.249 Abstract Since the proposal in 1998 to build a quantum computer using dopants in silicon as qubits, much progress has been made in the nanofabrication of semiconductors and the control of charge and spins in single dopants. However, an important problem remains
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Published 12 Oct 2018

Polarization-dependent strong coupling between silver nanorods and photochromic molecules

  • Gwénaëlle Lamri,
  • Alessandro Veltri,
  • Jean Aubard,
  • Pierre-Michel Adam,
  • Nordin Felidj and
  • Anne-Laure Baudrion

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2657–2664, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.247

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  • large number of metallic nanoparticles and molecules respectively. Indeed, the nanofabrication process does not allow us to obtain identical geometries over this large number of particles, especially for this nanorod geometry where a rounding of the corners occurs. The extinction measurements do not
  • parameters of the nanorods, mainly width and length, correspond to the designed values. Indeed, only few images have been recorded by electronic microscopy after the nanofabrication process and small variations between the designed and the real sizes can occur. To confirm the observation of a strong coupling
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Published 08 Oct 2018
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