Friday, February 01, 2013

Highly ordered freestanding titanium oxide nanotube arrays using Si-containing block copolymer lithography and atomic layer deposition

Se Jin Ku, Gyeong Cheon Jo, Chang Hong Bak, Su Min Kim, Yu Ri Shin, Kwang Ho Kim, Se Hun Kwon and Jin-Baek Kim



Highly ordered freestanding TiO 2 nanotube arrays with atomic layer control of wall thickness were fabricated using an organic–inorganic hybrid nanoporous template and atomic layer deposition (ALD). The hybrid nanoporous template with a high-aspect-ratio cylindrical nanopore array can be readily fabricated by pattern transfer from a thin silicon-containing block copolymer film into a thick cross-linked organic polymer layer. The template exhibited excellent thermal stability and thus allowed the high-temperature ALD process to conformally deposit TiO 2 thin films on the inner surface of cylindrical nanopores. The ultrafine thickness tunability of the ALD process made it possible to develop TiO 2 nanotubes with various wall thicknesses. After the template was removed using a dry etch followed by calcination, vertically aligned and highly crystalline anatase TiO 2 nanotube arrays were produced without collapse or bundling. We also fabricated ...



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