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Patterning Layer -By -Layer Self -Assembled Multilayer By Lithography And Its Applications To Thin Film Devices, Feng Hua

Doctoral Dissertations

Nanoparticles are exciting materials because they exhibit unique electronic, catalytic, and optical properties. As a novel and promising nanobuilding block, it attracts considerable research efforts in its integration into a wide variety of thin film devices.

Nanoparticles were adsorbed onto the substrate with layer-by-layer self-assembly which becomes of great interest due to its suitability in colloid particle assembly. Without extremely high temperatures and sophisticated equipment, molecularly organized films in an exactly pre-designed order can grow on almost all the substrates in nature.

Two approaches generating spatially separated patterns comprised of nanoparticles are demonstrated, as well as two approaches patterning more …