NANOSOURCE Project
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Project Title | Metallic and Semiconducting Nanoparticle Source for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications. |
Project Number | PIAP-GA-2008-218111 |
Instrument | IAPP |
Acronym | NANOSOURCE |
The Project - Objectives and Results
NANOSOURCE was an FP7 project running from 2008 to 2012 coordinated by our laboratory. The main thrust of NANOSOURCE project is the investigation of semiconducting and metallic nanoparticles as active elements of chemical sensors and electronic/optoelectronic devices for charge storage or light emission.
An overall objective of this project is to provide the basis for more permanent collaboration between the academic and industrial partners.
The technical and research objectives are outlined below:
- To develop a process for controlling the size and inter-particle distance of 2-dimensional nanocrystal systems.
- To develop techniques for the formation of 1-D arrays of nanoparticles using electrodynamic self-assembly.
- To characterize the nanoparticle systems to be fabricated by TEM, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy and Photoluminescence spectroscopy.
- To fabricate and demonstrate application driven devices in the areas of sensors and electronic/optoelectronic devices using the know-how on controlled nanoparticle deposition.
A brief summary of the results is presented at the following poster.
Partners
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in collaboration with the Institute of Microelectronics (IMEL) have developed experience in the field of chemical sensors, electronic memories and optoelectronic applications using nanoparticles, Mantis Deposition Ltd has developed a source able to synthesize semiconducting or metallic nanoparticles with high size uniformity and the Institute of Materials Science (IMS) group at National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSR “D”) with recognized experience in Transmission Electron Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy for material characterization at the nanoscale regime.
- National Technical University of Athens - GR
- Mantis Deposition Ltd - UK
- National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” - GR
Relevant publications
- "High strain sensitivity controlled by the surface density of platinum nanoparticles", Nanotechnology vol. 23(28), 2012, doi:10.1088/0957-4484/23/28/285501 ,
- "Raman enhancement of rhodamine adsorbed on Ag nanoparticles self-assembled into nanowire-like arrays", Nanoscale Research Letters vol. 6, pp.1-22, 2011, doi:10.1186/1556-276X-6-629 ,
- "Electrostatic self-assembly of nanoparticles into ordered nanowire arrays", Journal of Materials Research vol. 26(2), pp.209-214, 2011, doi:10.1557/jmr.2010.16 ,
- "Two-dimensional nanoparticle self-assembly using plasma-induced Ostwald ripening", Nanotechnology vol. 22(23), 2011, doi:10.1088/0957-4484/22/23/235306 ,
- "Optimization of hafnium oxide for use in nanoparticle memories", Microelectronic Engineering vol. 88(7), pp.1189-1193, 2011, doi:10.1016/j.mee.2011.03.074 ,
- "ZnO nanoparticles produced by novel reactive physical deposition process", Applied Surface Science vol. 257(12), pp.5366-5369, 2011, doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.12.001 ,
- "Assembly of charged nanoparticles by self-electrodynamic focusing" presented at: ESSDERC 2009 - Proceedings of the 39th European Solid-State Device Research Conference, 2009 ,