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Advanced methods in Glancing Angle Deposition to control thin film morphology, microstructure and texture
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Structuring of material on the nanoscale is enabling new functional materials and improving existing technologies. Glancing angle deposition (GLAD) is a physical vapor deposition technique that enables thin film fabrication with engineered columnar structures on the (10 to 100) nm scales. In this...
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Fall 2012
Glancing angle deposition (GLAD) is a thin film fabrication technique capable of creating arrays of nanocolumns from numerous materials. Optimizing these films for applications requires an understanding of their growth, prompting research into the columns’ growth scaling behaviour. Columns are...
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Fabrication and characterization of PZT nanorods and nanohexagons with applications in piezoelectric transducers
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All ultrasound devices/sensors use piezoelectric transducers to generate/receive ultrasound. These transducers are made of Pb (Zr0.53Ti0.47) O3 (PZT) materials. In this article, we report a new way of fabricating PZT material with interesting nanorod and nanohexagon shapes. The PZT nanohexagons...
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Spring 2012
Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) is a powerful tool for structuring materials at the deep nanoscale. Modeling and simulation of electron-beam interactions at this length scale is vital to understanding and optimizing nanofabrication using EBL. The low to high voltage (5 keV – 100 keV) regimes of...
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Spring 2022
Cyanobacteria are among the most abundant primary producers in the oceans and are present in nearly every environment on the planet. They were one of the first organisms to evolve nearly 3.8 billion years ago, making them excellent analogs for the investigation of ancient ocean chemistry. The...
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Molecular separations using nanostructured porous thin films fabricated by glancing angle deposition
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Biomolecular separation techniques are an enabling technology that indirectly influence many aspects of our lives. Advances have led to faster analyses, reduced costs, higher specificity, and new analytical techniques, impacting areas such as health care, environmental monitoring, polymer...
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Fall 2009
Extending electronic devices beyond the limitations of current micro-electronics manufacturing will require detailed knowledge of how to make contacts to semiconductor surfaces. In this work, we investigated several methods by which such connections to silicon surfaces could be achieved. Scanning...
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Fall 2016
The lead sulfide colloidal quantum dots (PbS CQD) solar cell has attracted wide attention in recent years for its facile fabrication process and low cost. However, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of PbS CQD cell is still low due to the trade-off between light absorption and carrier...