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Title: ADVANCED NANOIMPRINT PATTERNING FOR FUNCTIONAL ELECTRONICS AND BIOCHEMICAL SENSING
Authors: Wang, Chao
Advisors: Chou, Stephen Y
Contributors: Electrical Engineering Department
Keywords: biochemical sensing
graphene
nano-fluidics
Nanoimprint lithography
plasmonics
silicon nanowires
Subjects: Electrical engineering
Nanoscience
Nanotechnology
Issue Date: 2012
Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University
Abstract: Nano-fabrication has been widely used for a variety of disciplines, including electronics, material science, nano-optics, and nano-biotechnology. This dissertation focuses on nanoimprint lithography (NIL) based novel nano-patterning techniques for fabricating functional structures, and discusses their applications in advanced electronics and high-sensitivity molecular sensing. In this dissertation, examples of using nano-fabricated structures for promising electronic applications are presented. For instance, 10 nm and 18 nm features are NIL-fabricated for Si/SiGe heterojunction tunneling transistors and graphene nano-ribbon transistors, using shadow evaporation and line-width shrinking techniques, respectively. An ultrafast laser melting based method is applied on flexible plastic substrates to correct defects of nano-features. Nano-texturing of sapphire substrate is developed to improve the light extraction of GaN light emitting diodes (LEDs) by 70 %. A novel multi-layer nano-patterned Si-mediated catalyst is discovered to grow straight and uniform Si nanowires with optimized properties in size, location, and crystallization on amorphous SiO2 substrate. Nano-structures are also functionalized into highly sensitive bio-chemical sensors. Plasmonic nano-bar antenna arrays are demonstrated to effectively sense infrared molecules >10 times better than conventional plasmonic sensors. As small as 20 nm wide nano-channel fluidic devices are developed to linearize and detect DNA molecules for potential DNA sequencing. An integrated fluidic system is built to incorporate plasmonic nano-structures for 30X-enhanced fluorescence detection of large DNA molecules.
URI: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cr56n1010
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Type of Material: Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Language: en
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