Templates for engineered nano-objects for use in microwave, electronic devices and biomedical sensing application

✍ Scribed by E. Ferain; R. Legras

• Book ID: 103863353
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 267
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-583X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.02.013

✦ Synopsis

Nanoporous templates have been developed and fabricated employing technology based on heavy ion bombardment and track etching of polymer films or polymer layers deposited on substrates; an alternative and unique tool based on the adaptation of an atomic force microscopy has been also developed to elaborate nanotemplates with pores of ultra-small dimensions down to a few nanometers. Different types of nano-objects elaborated using these templates have been further characterized regarding their specific properties: spin dependent phenomena in magnetic nano-objects (GMR, TMR, spin filtering, magneto-Coulomb effect, spin transfer torque phenomena), microwave properties of ferromagnetic nanowires arrays, optical properties of confined emitting polymer and biomedical applications of magnetic (Ni) and Ni/Au composite nanowires. Potential application of magnetic nanowire arrays has been also considered in sensor for automotive contact-less positioning system.