Automated pick-and-place of single nanoparticle using electrically controlled low-surface energy nanotweezer

Autor: Ya-Kun Lyu, Zuo-Tao Ji, Tao He, Zhenda Lu, Weihua Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: AIP Advances, Vol 11, Iss 3, Pp 035219-035219-5 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2158-3226
DOI: 10.1063/5.0041145
Popis: In this work, we developed electrically controlled nanotweezers, which are capable of picking, moving, and placing a single sub-50 nm particle precisely and repeatably in ambient air. The nanotweezers are made of a fluoride polymer coated conductive atomic force microscope tip. By applying voltages on such a low surface energy tip, one can tune the binding energy between the tip and the nanoparticle up and down and consequently pick and place a nanoparticle with a high success rate (>90%). Moreover, we automated the whole pick-and-place procedure with the help of the computer vision technique, and it allows us to pattern nanoparticles into arbitrary patterns without any manual operation.
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