PMID- 28684661
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180723
LR  - 20180723
IS  - 1361-6528 (Electronic)
IS  - 0957-4484 (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 36
DP  - 2017 Sep 8
TI  - Strategies for the AFM-based manipulation of silver nanowires on a flat surface.
PG  - 365301
LID - 10.1088/1361-6528/aa7e35 [doi]
AB  - Silver nanowires (Ag NWs) are a promising material for building various sensors 
      and devices at the nanoscale. However, the fast and precise placement of 
      individual Ag NWs is still a challenge today. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has 
      been widely used to manipulate nanoparticles, yet this technology encounters many 
      difficulties when being applied to the movement of Ag NWs as well as other soft 
      one-dimensional (1D) materials, since the samples are easily distorted or even 
      broken due to friction and adhesion on the substrate. In this paper, two novel 
      manipulation strategies based on the parallel pushing method are presented. This 
      method applies a group of short parallel pushing vectors (PPVs) to the Ag NW 
      along its longitudinal direction. Identical and proportional vectors are 
      respectively proposed to translate and rotate the Ag NWs with a straight-line 
      configuration. The rotation strategy is also applied to straighten flexed Ag NWs. 
      The finite element method simulation is introduced to analyse the behaviour of 
      the Ag NWs as well as to optimize the parameter setting of the PPVs. Experiments 
      are carried out to confirm the efficiency of the presented strategies. By 
      comprehensive application of the new strategies, four Ag NWs are continuously 
      assembled in a rectangular pattern. This study improves the controllability of 
      the position and configuration of Ag NWs on a flat substrate. It also indicates 
      the practicability of automatic nanofabrication using common AFMs.
FAU - Liu, Hong-Zhi
AU  - Liu HZ
AD  - School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin 
      University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
FAU - Wu, Sen
AU  - Wu S
FAU - Zhang, Jun-Ming
AU  - Zhang JM
FAU - Bai, Hui-Tian
AU  - Bai HT
FAU - Jin, Fan
AU  - Jin F
FAU - Pang, Hai
AU  - Pang H
FAU - Hu, Xiao-Dong
AU  - Hu XD
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170707
PL  - England
TA  - Nanotechnology
JT  - Nanotechnology
JID - 101241272
EDAT- 2017/07/08 06:00
MHDA- 2017/07/08 06:01
CRDT- 2017/07/08 06:00
PHST- 2017/07/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/07/08 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2017/07/08 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1088/1361-6528/aa7e35 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nanotechnology. 2017 Sep 8;28(36):365301. doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/aa7e35. Epub 
      2017 Jul 7.