Hole-mask colloidal nanolithography combined with tilted-angle-rotation evaporation: A versatile method for fabrication of low-cost and large-area complex plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials

• Jun Zhao,
• Bettina Frank,
• Frank Neubrech,
• Chunjie Zhang,
• Paul V. Braun and
• Harald Giessen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 577–586, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.68

• central disk is evaporated, and its diameter is about 120 nm, which is slightly larger than the outer ring disks, since the gold is evaporated normal to the substrate. Thus, the clogging effect due to the shadowing is less dramatic and still a height of 15 nm is reached. The optical transmittance in

Photoresponse from single upright-standing ZnO nanorods explored by photoconductive AFM

• Igor Beinik,
• Markus Kratzer,
• Astrid Wachauer,
• Lin Wang,
• Yuri P. Piryatinski,
• Gerhard Brauer,
• Xin Yi Chen,
• Yuk Fan Hsu,
• Aleksandra B. Djurišić and
• Christian Teichert

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 208–217, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.21

• shadowing. The illumination at large angle of incidence causes also an increase in the reflection from the surface, therefore the photoresponse is significantly suppressed in this configuration of illumination. For the investigation of transient photocurrent and photocurrent spectroscopy from single upright

• side and biased. Use of ATEC-CONTPt™ probes helps to avoid shadowing by the cantilever. (a) 5 μm × 5 μm intermittent contact mode AFM image and SEM micrograph (inset) of ZnO nanorods grown by thermal evaporation, (b) time-resolved (blue curve) and integral (red curve) PL spectra from the array of

Low-dose patterning of platinum nanoclusters on carbon nanotubes by focused-electron-beam-induced deposition as studied by TEM

• Xiaoxing Ke,
• Carla Bittencourt,
• Sara Bals and
• Gustaaf Van Tendeloo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 77–86, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.9

• of the CNTs need to be functionalized in order to create components with specific properties. For instance, in order to fabricate CNT contacts on electrodes, Pd is thermally evaporated onto both ends by using shadowing masks [8]. In earlier reports, it has been shown that Au nanoclusters can be site

Sub-10 nm colloidal lithography for circuit-integrated spin-photo-electronic devices

• Adrian Iovan,
• Marco Fischer,
• Roberto Lo Conte and
• Vladislav Korenivski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 884–892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.98

• be reactive ion etching (RIE) with oxygen, in which the polystyrene particles are first etched predominantly from the sides, where the Al film is much thinner due to the shadowing effect of the e-beam coating of the polystyrene spheres. During this RIE etching step the Al film surface oxidizes and

• ), and the larger the angle of incidence the deeper below 10 nm the nanocontacts are due to the double shadowing effect illustrated in Figure 5a (direct mask shadowing and shadowing from material build up on the mask edge). We note that the SiO2 under the openings in the Al mask is significantly undercut

Self-assembled monolayers and titanium dioxide: From surface patterning to potential applications

• Yaron Paz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 845–861, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.94

• between SAMs on SiO2, on mica and on mica coated with ultrathin layers of SiO2. Here, it was found that the adsorption rate decreased with the width of the silica overlayer, and this result was explained by the increased shadowing of an electrostatic interaction between the negatively charged mica surface