Track-etch templates designed for micro- and nanofabrication

Extracting Individual Properties from Global Behaviour: First-order Reversal Curve Method Applied to Magnetic Nanowire Arrays

“…The nanoporous dielectric template is typically made of anodised aluminium (alumina) (O'Sullivan & Wood, 1970), ion bombarded polycarbonate (Ferain & Legras, 2003) or diblock copolymer (Thurn-Albrecht et al, 2000). It is important that the pores be of constant diameter, parallel to each other, and perpendicular to the template surface.…”

Cylindrical nanochannels in ion-track polycarbonate membranes studied by small-angle X-ray scattering

“…Over the many years, pore fabrication was extended to different polymer materials and the size of the pores became smaller and smaller. To date, pores with diameters from tens to hundreds of nanometres are used as templates for the fabrication of single-and multi-crystalline nanowires of materials such as metals, semiconductors and insulators (Ferain & Legras, 2003;Chtanko et al, 2005;Dobrev et al, 2005). These wires are attracting much attention due to their potential applications in electronic, sensoric, optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices .…”

Magnetic Force Microscopy Characterization of Magnetic Nanowires and Nanotubes

“…However sometimes depending upon the diameter of the nanopores, the packing density (P) may be quite different from the pore density (P pores ). It has been shown that the packing density in PC can be drastically low when the pore sizes is less than 20 nm [43], which is not the case in our samples as verified by SEM and shown in Fig. 5.4b.…”

“…This process allows controlling the size, shape, and density of pores over a wide range of values. Indeed, sizes of 10 nm to several micrometers, with a length to diameter ratio between 10 and 1000 are possible, and the pore density can range from 10 5 to 10 11 cm À2 [42,43].…”