Processing on a Nanometre Scale
Description
- Project Title:
- Processing on a Nanometre Scale
- Acronym:
- PRONANO
- Number:
- 8523
- Work Area:
- Ultimate Miniaturisation
- Coordinator:
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Institut für Physikalische Chemie
Jakob-Welder-Weg 11
D- 55099 MAINZ
- Coordinator Country:
- D
- Partners
- IBM Zürich Research Laboratory CH
University of Copenhagen CISMI DK
University of Cambridge Engineering Department UK
- Contact Point:
- Prof. J.P. Rabe
- Telephone:
- +49-6131-39 4212
- Fax:
- +49-6131-39 3768
- E-Mail:
- rabe@max.mpip-mainz.mpg.dbp.de
- Keywords:
- scanning tunnelling microscopy, novel scanning probe microscopies, single electron electronics, e-beam lithography, nano-optics, high-density information storage
- Start Date:
- to be announced
- Duration:
- months
- Status:
- starting
- Abstract:
- PRONANO aims to achieve processing and validation on the nanometre scale by using novel scanning probe microscopy techniques to manipulate molecules and clusters on surfaces. The nanostrutures obtained are expected to exhibit novel properties including single electron effects at ambient temperature.
AIMS
The aims of PRONANO are to explore novel concepts for fabrication in the range from 10 nm down to the scale at single atoms or molecules, and to investigate the electronic and optical properties of the newly fabricated nanostructures.
APPROACH AND METHODS
The basis of PRONANO is a unique electron beam facility and novel scanning probe microscopes combined with electromagnetic radiation fields, which shall be used to develop precisely defined protocols for reversible or irreversible manipulations of Nanometre-sized objects, including organic molecules, fullerenes and clusters on solid substrates.
POTENTIAL
A better scientific understanding of the processes underlying electron beam lithography shall lead to an improvement of its resolution. Precisely defined nanometre-sized structures are expected to exhibit new electronic and optical phenomena, including single electron effects at ambient temperatures. They may also become relevant for high density information storage.
Sven Müßig, last update 07-nov-1995. Your feedback is welcome.