Development of a Nanomanipualtion System for Handling Nanowires

Abstract:

A compact and versatile nanomanipulation platform and its dirve-control system are being developed. This nanomanipulation sytem is aimed to handle nanowires (NWs) and fabricate nanostructures by NWs in a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The excellent performance of the compact manipulator developed with corase and fine positioning in one unit has been demonstrated, which shows that the resolution is 8 nm and the steps are from 50 nm to 0.8 μm. For the power supply of the manipulator, a three-output driver is designed with a high-power integrated operational amplifier based on a mixed approach of voltage control and current control. The planar push-and-lift handling of NWs is carried out by the use of two tips to demonstrate the capability of the nanomanipulation sytem inside SEM.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 562-565)
• Pages: 1092-1097
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.562-565.1092
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Shi Zhong Zhang, Wei Bin Rong, Li Ning Sun
• Keywords: Amplifier, Nanohandling, Nanopositioner, Nanowire

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