Discovery and Utilization of Nanoscale and Mesoscale Enabling Materials and Processes for Optoelectronics and Electronic Interconnects

Abstract

This report describes the development of enabling mesoscale materials and development of new instrumentation and methodologies for nanoscale material characterization. The work involved the following eight separate efforts: 1. Use of Colloidal Array Photonic Materials for Photochemically and Photothermally Controllable Diffraction Devices; 2. Development of Methods to Fabricate Nanoscale and Mesoscale Enabling Materials such as Magnetically Anisotropic Spherical Particles; 3. Development of Methods to Fabricate Particles -with Chemically Anisotropic Surfaces; 4. Theoretical Determination of the Dependence of Photonic Crystal Diffraction on Crystal Dielectric Modulation and the Crystal Defect Structures; 5. Development of Methods to Direct, Control and Study the Self-Assembly of Ge/Si Quantum Dots; 6. Fabrication of Molecular Scale Shift Register Memories; 7. Development of a Nanoworkbench for Analysis, Manipulation and Excitation of Individual Nanostructures; and 8. Development of Instrumentation and Methodologies for Chemical Imaging of Nanoscale Surface Structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA419192

Entities

People

  • Craig Wilcox
  • David Beratan
  • Gilbert Walker
  • Jeremy Levy
  • Joachim Ahner
  • John Yates
  • Michael D Hopkins
  • Rob Coalson
  • Sanford A Asher

Organizations

  • University of Pittsburgh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alkenes
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Crystal Lattices
  • Crystal Structure
  • Crystals
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Quantum Dots

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing