Organic molecules modified palladium nanowires arrays prepared by high temperature liquid phase reduction

This paper reports high temperature liquid phase synthesis of Pd nanowires using chemically modified porous anodic aluminium oxide as template. In this synthesis process, oleic acid is used to modify the inner wall of the pores and Pd^2＋ complex with oleylamine is filled into the channel of the template. The complex is then reduced to give oleylamine-capped Pd nanowires. This paper suggests that oleic acid can improve the environment of inner wall of the pores, leading to the formation of uniform Pd nanowires. The synthetic process can be extended to make other types of nanowires.     

单根Cu纳米线的制备与原位电学性质

金属纳米线是未来纳米电子器件中的重要组成部分,因此研究单根金属纳米线的电学性质具有重要的意义。相对于单根纳米线电学性质的移位测量,原位测量精确度更高,结果更可靠。目前,国际上用于原位电学性质测量的单根纳米线的最小直径为80 nm,更小直径的纳米线很难在纳米孔道中生长,其电化学生长动力学过程还不清楚,电阻率数据缺失。本文在单个蚀刻离子径迹孔道中利用电化学沉积技术成功生长了单根Cu纳米线,其直径仅为64 nm,为目前同方法最细。在此基础上,首次测量了该纳米线的电输运性质并获得了其电阻率数值。研究结果表明,利用电导法可以监测模板中单个孔道的形成和扩孔的动力学过程以及最终的孔径大小。电化学沉积时,沉积电流与沉积时间曲线清晰地揭示了纳米线的沉积动力学过程。I-V曲线研究显示Cu纳米线具有典型的金属特性。其电阻率为3.46 μ?·cm,约是Cu块体材料电阻率的两倍。电阻率增大可能与电子在晶界和表面处的散射有关。Metal nanowires, as one of the most crucial components of nanoelectronic devices in the future, have attracted enormous attention. Therefore, it is of great significance to investigate the electrical properties of single metal nanowires. Herein, the single Cu nanowire with diameter of 64 nm was successfully prepared by using single-ion track template method combined with electrochemical deposition approach, and its I-V curve was measured. Such a diameter represents the thinnest one as comparing the reported ones obtained by the same method. The results illustrated that the process of formation and growth, as well as the final diameter of single nanochannel in template can be monitored and measured by conductance method. During the electrochemical deposition, the dynamic evolution of the deposition of nanowire can be clearly reflected through the deposition current and deposition time. At the same time, I-V measurements reveal that the Cu nanowire has typical metallic characteristic. For the first time, the resistivity of such a thin nanowire is obtained and its resistivity is 3.46 μ?·cm which is around twice that of Cu bulk materials. The increase of resistivity is believed coming from finite size effects and may be related to the electrons scattering at the grain boundaries and surfaces.     

Optical and magnetic properties of porous anodic alumina films embedded with Co nanowires

A simple method to tune the optical properties of porous anodic alumina （PAA） films embedded with Co nanowires （PAA@Co nanocomposite films） is reported in this paper. The films exhibit vivid structural colors and magnetic properties. The optical properties of the films can be effectively tuned by adjusting the thickness of the PAA template. The deposition of Co nanowires greatly increases the color saturation of the PAA films. The theoretical results of the changes in structural color according to the Bragg-Snell formula are consistent with the experimental results. PAA@Co films can be used in many areas, including decoration, display, and multifunctional anti-counterfeiting applications.     

Transport properties through double-magnetic-barrier structures in graphene

We study electrons tunneling through a double-magnetic-barrier structure on the surface of monolayer graphene.The transmission probability and the conductance are calculated by using the transfer matrix method.The results show that the normal incident transmission probability is blocked by the magnetic vector potential and the Klein tunneling region depends strongly on the direction of the incidence electron.The transmission probability and the conductance can be modulated by changing structural parameters of the barrier,such as width and height,offering a possibility to control electron beams on graphene.     

Semi-analytical method of calculating the electrostatic interaction of colloidal solutions

We present a semi-analytical method of calculating the electrostatic interaction of colloid solutions for confined and unconfined systems. We expand the electrostatic potential of the system in terms of some basis functions such as spherical harmonic function and cylinder function. The expansion coefficients can be obtained by solving the equations of the boundary conditions, combining an analytical translation transform of the coordinates and a numerical multipoint collection method. The precise electrostatic potential and the interaction energy are then obtained automatically. The method is available not only for the uniformly charged colloids but also for nonuniformly charged ones. We have successfully applied it to unconfined diluted colloid system and some confined systems such as the long cylinder wall confinement, the air–water interfacial confinement and porous membrane confinement. The consistence checks of our calculations with some known analytical cases have been made for all our applications. In theory, the method is applicable to any dilute colloid solutions with an arbitrary distribution of the surface charge on the colloidal particle under a regular solid confinement, such as spherical cavity confinement and lamellar confinement.     

Single layer atom chip for magnetically trapping one-dimensional array of ultracold atoms

<正>We propose a wire configuration to create a one-dimensional(1D) array of magnetic microtraps for trapping ultracold atoms.The configuration is formed by replacing the central part of the Z-wire pattern with a zigzag wire. We simulate the performance of this pattern by the finite element method which can take both the width and depth of the wire into consideration.The result of simulation shows that this configuration can create magnetic microtraps which can be separated and combined by changing the bias magnetic field.We manage to split the Z-wire trap and prove that a similar result can occur for the new wire configuration.The fabrication processes of the atom chip are also introduced.Finally we discuss the loading method.     

Growth of Pure Zinc Blende GaAs Nanowires: Effect of Size and Density of Au Nanoparticles

Pure zinc blende GaAs nanowires were grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition on GaAs（111）B substrates via Au catalyzed vapor-liquid-solid mechanism. The diameter, size distribution, and density of Au particles can be changed by varying the Au film thickness. We find that the grown nanowires are of rod-like shapes and pure zinc blende structure; moreover, the growth rate depends on the density of Au particles and it is independent of its diameters. It can be concluded that the nanowire was grown with main contributions from the direct impingement of vapor species onto the Au-Ga droplets and contributions from adatom diffusion can be negligible. The results indicate that the droplet acts as a catalyst rather than an adatom collector.     

Mode selective coupler for optical vortices generation(Invited Paper)

In this Letter,an effective method using a mode selective coupler(MSC),which is composed of a three-core fiber is presented to generate optical vortices(OVs).The conversions of OVs with different topological charges,0→±1 and 0→±3,are simulated in detail.We also prove that a higher-order topological charge can be obtained simply by changing the parameters of the fiber to increase the number of modes in the fiber.The polarization of OVs can be controlled as well.     

利用重离子径迹模版法制备出的钯纳米线阵列的表面等离激元共振现象研究(英文)

利用电化学沉积在重离子径迹模版中制备出了不同直径的一维钯纳米线。利用扫描电子显微镜、透射电子显微镜和X射线衍射等多多种手段对制得的钯纳米线进行了形貌和结构表征。利用紫外可见光谱仪分析了钯纳米线的光学响应,发现钯纳米线存在表面等离子体共振现象。随着纳米线直径和长度的增加,其表面等离子体共振峰位发生红移;通过改变光谱测试中激发光的入射角度,其表面等离激元共振模式会随着角度的增大而变多,这可能是在横向振动模式的基础上激发了沿纳米线长度方向振动的纵向模式。与此同时,基于时域有限差分法对钯纳米线的表面等离子体共振特性进行数值模拟,结果与实验符合较好。Palladium nanowires with varied diameters were fabricated using ion-track templates coupled with electrochemical deposition. The morphology and crystallographic structure were characterized with Scanning Electron Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD). The plasmonic responses of the as-prepared nanowires were investigated by UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy and the simulations based on the finite-difference time-domain algorithm. The results demonstrate that the surface plasmon resonances of Pd nanowire are sensitive to the wire geometry, but also influenced by the incidence angle of light. The frequency of the transverse dipolar plasmon resonance of nanowire arrays shifts within a wide range from visible to near infrared. With increasing of wires' diameter or length, the resonance peak shifts to the red. With increasing of incident angle, a new peak appears, which is possibly assigned to the excitation of the longitudinal resonance. In addition, numerical simulations disclose that propagating surface plasmon polaritons can be excited on the palladium nanowires and the wavelength of the resonance peak is in good agreement with the experimental results.     

Controlling the gain shape of Er^3＋—doped fluorozirconate fibre amplifier by a coherent field

We proposed a four-level system to explore the quantum interference effects on optical amplification.We found that the gain of the probe.including positions and values of gain peaks,can be adjusted by changing the coherent field and the incoherent pumping.At the same time,we can also modify the absorption profile of electromagnetically induced transparency by the incoherent pump.The results provide a method to flatten the gain of Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers.     

Investigation of the surface properties of gold nanowire arrays

Gold nanowire arrays with diameters ranging from 45 to 200 nm were obtained via electrochemical deposition within the ion-track templates. The morphology of gold nanowires was imaged by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The surface properties were investigated by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The SPR peaks were observed as the gold nanowire arrays embedded in the templates and their intensity decreased after the sample exposed to the air for a certain time due to the formation of chemisorbed oxygen on nanowire surface. The positive binding energy shifts in Au core level was found when the gold nanowire arrays embodied in template and the initial- and finial-state effects were introduced to explain this phenomenon.     

Formation of metal membranes by direct duplication of etched ion-track templates

A method for direct electrochemical metal duplication of pores in ion-track polymer membranes is described. It allows fabrication of metallic membranes using any metal, which is readily deposited by electroplating from aqueous solutions. The metal is deposited on one side of the template membrane, facing the anode, which is made conductive by a thin metal cladding layer. During electroplating, the lateral tapping of the pores is prevented by applying a counter-solution from the opposite non-metallized side of the plastic membrane, which increases dramatically the deposition overvoltage in the vicinity of the pore orifices. Such metallic membranes can be generated with pore diameters in the nano- and micrometer range and with densities from single pores up to 10⁶–10⁷ pores/cm². They can replace plastic filters in cases when an application of polymer material is not desirable. They could be advantageous particularly in catalysis as well as in biological science and technology. Further, they may be useful as apertures and collimators for different kinds of radiation. Received: 14 February 2002 / Accepted: 21 May 2002 / Published online: 22 November 2002 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. Fax: +49-6159/712-179, E-mail: r.neumann@gsi.de     

Convenient preparation of ITO nanoparticles inks for transparent conductive thin films

We synthesized Pt and Ag nanowires using a mesoporous silica, SBA-15, as templates. The obtained nanowires are a few micrometers (~4???m) long and 7?nm in diameter. The nanowires are free from bundling and, thus, can be separated as single nanowires. The successful synthesis of such nanowires requires a few considerations. In general, SBA-15 has microchannels on the walls through which the mesopores are interconnected when synthesized at 100?°C or higher. We, therefore, synthesized SBA-15 at a low temperature (80?°C) to eliminate the microchannels. Impregnation of the metal precursors and reduction of them into metals forms metal particles outside the pores in addition to the desired metal nanowires inside the pores. Surface alkylation of SBA-15 prohibits the nucleation of metal on the external surface and exclusively forms the nanowires. Finally, the introduction of surface passivating agent, an alkylthiol, during the removal of the template keeps the nanowires from interacting with one another. The Pt and Ag nanowires so-synthesized were characterized by electron microscopy.     

Magnetic nanowires fabricated by anodic aluminum oxide template—a brief review

Anodic aluminum oxide(AAO) with highly ordered nanoscale pores which are monodisperse and mutually parallel can be produced through a self-organized electrochemical process.Subsequent deposition of materials into the nanopores produces AAO embedded nanowire arrays.Whilst the templates can be further removed to obtain free individual nanowires,the embedded nanowires form an interesting nanocomposite structure.Recent research activities on the fabrication and characteriza-tion of AAO template based magnetic n...     

Porous silicon templates for electrodeposition of nanostructures

We report the fabrication and characterization of porous silicon templates for electrodeposition of high aspect ratio one-dimensional metallic nanostructures (nanowires/nanoparticles) in them. Even though nanostructures/nanowires in the past have been fabricated in alumina, polymer or silica templates, the advantages of this approach are the possibility for seamless integration of nanostructures with other silicon components, and silicon based sensors because of better physical and electrical interconnection between the nanostructure and the silicon substrate. In this work, fabrication and characterization of nanowires/nanostructures such as single-segment Ni–Fe and Au and two-segment Ni–Fe/Au electrodeposited in the porous silicon template are presented. The templates with ordered and controlled nanometer-sized pores, 40 nm and 290 nm in diameter, were created through porous Si etching. The morphology, composition and structural characteristics of the template and of the single-segment Ni–Fe and Au and two-segment Ni–Fe/Au nanostructures of diameter 275±25 nm, length up to 100 μm and pitch of 1 μm were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques. The micrographs confirm that the plating parameters have a strong influence on morphology and composition of the structures. Further, the Ni–Fe images show the formation of both vertical and branched nanowires along with nanoparticles, from breakage/discontinuous growth of nanowires. Ni–Fe nanostructures were further analyzed for temperature-dependent magnetization and magnetization vs. magnetic field measurements using a commercial physical property measurement system. They reveal no magnetic anisotropy of the nanostructures probably due to a balance between ‘reduced’ shape anisotropy from branched and rough pore surfaces and magnetocrystalline anisotropy. PACS 61.46.+w; 75.75.+a; 81.07.-b; 81.16.Be     

Controlled synthesis of ZnO nanowires or nanotubes via sol-gel template process

ZnO nanowires and nanotubes have been rationally fabricated within the nanochannels of porous anodic alumina templates by an improved sol-gel template process. X-ray diffraction and selected area electronic diffraction demonstrate that the as-obtained ZnO nanowires and nanotubes can be indexed to hexagonal wurtzite polycrystalline. In this method, zinc nitrate and urea are used as precursors, zinc nitrate serve as zinc ions source, and urea offered a basic medium through its hydrolysis. ZnO nanowires or ZnO nanotubes can be obtained easily by controlling hydrolysis time. The formation mechanism of ZnO nanowires and nanotubes was also discussed.     

含分枝铜纳米线多孔铝膜的偏振特性

利用二次阳极氧化法制备了具有分枝结构的多孔铝(PAA)模板,并以交流电化学沉积的方法在该模板中合成了分枝状的铜纳米线。用SEM观察样品的形貌结构,用分光光度计测量了样品的透射光谱和偏振光谱。实验结果表明,含分枝状铜纳米线结构的多孔铝膜在近红外光区具有较高的透射率,且得到了14～22 dB的消光比。这种微偏振器件制备方法简单、效率高、造价低,在光电集成领域有着广泛的应用前景。     

Polycarbonate activation for electroless plating by dimethylaminoborane absorption and subsequent nanoparticle deposition

Electroless plating of metal films on polymer substrates usually requires the presence of metal particles acting as catalytically active nuclei for the deposition reaction. Herein, we present a novel and versatile approach towards the activation of polycarbonate substrates with metal nanoparticles. It is based on the diffusion of dimethylaminoborane into the polymer matrix, followed by reaction of the sensitized substrates with metal salt solutions. The reducing agent uptake was controlled by changing the duration of the sensitization and the dimethylaminoborane concentration in the sensitization solution. Different seed types (Ag, Au, Pd, Pt and Rh) were deposited by variation of the activation solution. The proposed mechanism was confirmed with FTIR and TEM measurements. In addition, AFM revealed that apart from a slight roughening in the nanometer range, the surface morphology of the polymer remained unchanged, rendering the method viable for template-based nanomaterial fabrication. Due to its pronounced variability, the new technique allows to tailor the activity of polymer substrates for consecutive electroless plating. The feasibility and nanoscale homogeneity of the process were proven by the electroless fabrication of well-defined Au and Pt nanotubes in ion-track etched polycarbonate templates. The combination of features (use of simple and easily scalable wet-chemical processes, facile seed variation, high activation quality on complex surfaces) renders the outlined technique promising for the fabrication of intricate nanomaterials as well as for the metallization of macroscopic work pieces.