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| Max G LagallySummaryAffiliation: University of Wisconsin Country: USA Publications
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Translation and manipulation of silicon nanomembranes using holographic optical tweezersStefan M Oehrlein
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Nanoscale Res Lett 6:507. 2011..Using as few as one trap and trapping powers as low as several hundred milliwatts, silicon nanomembranes can be rotated and translated in a solution over large distances...
Fabrication of ultrahigh-density nanowires by electrochemical nanolithographyFeng Chen
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Nanoscale Res Lett 6:444. 2011..We demonstrate this method on Si/SiGe multilayer superlattices using electrochemical nanopatterning and plasma etching to obtain high-density Si/SiGe multilayer superlattice nanowires...
Influence of surface properties on the electrical conductivity of silicon nanomembranesXiangfu Zhao
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison WI 53706, USA
Nanoscale Res Lett 6:402. 2011..X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements are consistent with the electrical-conductivity results. We pinpoint the likely cause of the differences.PACS: 73.63.-b, 62.23.Kn, 73.40.Ty...
Influence of surface chemical modification on charge transport properties in ultrathin silicon membranesShelley A Scott
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
ACS Nano 3:1683-92. 2009..We explain this behavior in terms of surface-induced band structure changes combined with the effective isolation from bulk properties created by crystal thinness...
Direct-bandgap light-emitting germanium in tensilely strained nanomembranesJose R Sanchez-Perez
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:18893-8. 2011....
Symmetry in strain engineering of nanomembranes: making new strained materialsDeborah M Paskiewicz
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
ACS Nano 5:5532-42. 2011..We are thus able to make uniformly strained materials that cannot be made any other way...
"Soft Si": effective stiffness of supported crystalline nanomembranesFrancesca Cavallo
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
ACS Nano 5:5400-7. 2011....
Semiconductor nanomembrane tubes: three-dimensional confinement for controlled neurite outgrowthMinrui Yu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
ACS Nano 5:2447-57. 2011....
Nanomechanical architecture of semiconductor nanomembranesMinghuang Huang
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Nanoscale 3:96-120. 2011..We also describe several materials properties of nanomechanical architectures. We discuss potential applications of nanomembrane technology to implement simple and hybrid functionalities...
Quantum confinement, surface roughness, and the conduction band structure of ultrathin silicon membranesFeng Chen
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
ACS Nano 4:2466-74. 2010..The measured dependence of the sub-band splitting and the shift of their weighted average on degree of confinement is in excellent agreement with theory, for both Si(001) and Si(110)...
Defect-free single-crystal SiGe: a new material from nanomembrane strain engineeringDeborah M Paskiewicz
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
ACS Nano 5:5814-22. 2011..We confirm the high structural quality of these new materials and demonstrate their use as substrates for technologically relevant epitaxial films by growing strained-Si layers and thick, lattice-matched SiGe alloy layers on them...
Si/Ge junctions formed by nanomembrane bondingArnold M Kiefer
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
ACS Nano 5:1179-89. 2011..Both the Si and the Ge maintain a high degree of crystallinity. The junction is highly conductive. The nonlinear transport behavior is fit with a tunneling model, and the bonding behavior is explained with nanomembrane mechanics...
New strategy for synthesis and functionalization of carbon nanoparticlesHongquan Jiang
Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Langmuir 26:1991-5. 2010..XPS, TG/DTG, FTIR, and fluorescence tests confirm the viability of this new amination process. The nanoparticles are small and relatively uniformly sized. Their dispersibility in aqueous solution is significant...
Mechano-electronic superlattices in silicon nanoribbonsMinghuang Huang
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
ACS Nano 3:721-7. 2009..We predict that it is possible to observe discrete minibands in Si nanoribbons at room temperature if nanostressors of a different material are grown...
