Magnetic dipolar interaction in NiFe nanodot arrays formed on vertical carbon nanotubes

Printable nanoscale metal ring arrays via vertically aligned carbon nanotube platforms

This paper reports a novel and efficient strategy for fabricating sub-100 nm metal ring arrays using a simple printing process. Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes that are supported by hexagonally ordered channels of alumina matrices are used as a stamp to print nanoscale ring patterns, which is a very unique stamping platform that has never been reported. Using this strategy, uniform nanoring patterns of various metals can be directly printed onto a wide range of substrate surfaces under ambient conditions. Significantly, the size and interval of the printed nanorings can be systematically tuned by controlling the ring-shaped tip dimensions of the pristine stamps. An advanced example of these printable nanoscale metal ring arrays is explicitly embodied in this work by investigation of the plasmon resonances of metal nanorings with different sizes and intervals.

Printing of sub-100-nm metal nanodot arrays by carbon nanopost stamps

This work reports an efficient method to fabricate hexagonally patterned metal nanodot arrays at the sub-100-nm scale, which is based on contact printing via novel nanometer-scaled stamps. Vertically aligned carbon nanoposts, supported by hexagonally ordered nanochannels of anodic aluminum oxide templates, are employed as the stamping platform to directly transfer controlled metal nanodot arrays. Using the fabrication platform, a number of patterned metal nanodot arrays made of Au, Cu, Ni, Ag, Pt, Al, and Ti can be contact-printed over large substrate areas in ambient conditions. The size, density, and interdistance of the printed nanodots are controllable with a tight correspondence to the mother stamp geometries, which can be precisely tuned by modifying the pore dimensions of the alumina matrixes. An advanced example of contact printing of metal nanoparticles is successfully demonstrated by the controlled formation of nanodot arrays in a specific area.