This research investigated the feasibility of patterning with sol-gels using a nanofountain probe in an atomic force microscope. Two oxide sols — barium titanate and cobalt ferrite — were used as inks in patterning tests using fountain-pen nanolithography (FPN). This was shown to be a suitable method of depositing sol-gels on silicon, silicon nitride, and gold substrates. One area of further study might involve the effects of environmental conditions such as relative humidity on sol-gel ink patterning using FPN.

Last modified

• 07/19/2018

Creator

• Andrea Ho
• Eduardo Aramayo
• Horacio D. Espinosa

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2Z710

Keyword

• Volume 5

Date created

• 2008

Resource type

• Article

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• In Copyright