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Antireflection: Fabrication of Periodic Nanostructure Assemblies by Interfacial Energy Driven Colloidal Lithography (Adv. Funct. Mater. 29/2014)
Author(s) -
Dev A.,
Dev Choudhury B.,
Abedin A.,
Anand S.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201470188
Subject(s) - materials science , nanostructure , lithography , nanotechnology , monolayer , fabrication , colloid , substrate (aquarium) , nanowire , colloidal crystal , surface energy , self assembly , optoelectronics , composite material , chemical engineering , medicine , oceanography , alternative medicine , pathology , geology , engineering
An interfacial energy‐driven colloidal lithography technique to fabricate periodic nanostructure ensembles from a solution phase is demonstrated by A. Dev et al. on page 4577. It exploits different interfacial forces to periodically trap a liquid precursor under a monolayer of colloidal silica spheres arranged on a Si substrate. Using this technique, circular and ring‐shaped patterns of ZnO nanowire ensembles and thin films are fabricated. The method described here can be adopted to make periodic patterns from a wide variety of soluble materials.