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Researchers in Maryland report an advance toward making zinc oxide nanowires (shown) on an industrial scale. Courtesy of Babak Nikoobakht, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Abstract:
Scientists in Maryland are reporting an important advance toward the long-sought goal of industrial-scale fabrication of nanowire-based devices like ultra-sensitive sensors, light emitting diodes, and transistors for inexpensive, high-performance electronics products. The study is scheduled for the current issue of ACS' Chemistry of Materials, a bi-weekly journal.

Breakthrough toward industrial-scale production of nanodevices

Gaithersburg, MD | Posted on November 7th, 2007

In the report, Babak Nikoobakht points out that existing state-of-the-art assembly methods for nanowire-based devices require complicated, multi-step treatments, painstaking alignments steps, and other processing for nanowires , which are thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. The goal is to electrically address the coordinates of millions of nanowires on a surface in order to produce the components of electronic circuits.

The study describes a new method in which zinc oxide nanowires are grown in the exact positions where nanodevices later will be fabricated, in a way that involves a minimum number of fabrication steps and is suitable for industrial-scale applications. "This method, due to its scalability and ease of device fabrication, goes beyond the current state-of-the-art assembly of nanowire-based devices," the report states. "It is believed to be an attractive approach for mass fabrication of nanowire-based transistors and sensors and is expected to impact nanotechnology in fabrication of nonconventional nanodevices."

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Contacts:
Babak Nikoobakht, Ph.D.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899
Phone: 301-975-3230
Fax: 301- 926-6689
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