Templated self-assembly of iron oxide nanoparticles

M. J. Benitez; P. Szary; D. Mishra; M. Feyen; A. H. Lu; O. Petracic; H. Zabel

Templated self-assembly of iron oxide nanoparticles

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2010-10-21 v1 Materials Science

Authors: M. J. Benitez , P. Szary , D. Mishra , M. Feyen , A. H. Lu , O. Petracic , H. Zabel

Abstract

We report on self-assembled iron oxide nanoparticle films on silicon substrates. In addition to homogeneously assembled layers, we fabricated patterned trenches of 40-1000 nm width using electron beam lithography for the investigation of assisted self-assembly. The nanoparticles with a diameter of 20 nm +/- 7% were synthesized by thermal decomposition of iron oleate complexes in trioctylamine in presence of oleic acid. Samples with different track widths and nanoparticle concentration were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and by superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry.

Keywords

nanoparticles silicon physics thin film physics

Cite

@article{arxiv.1010.4166,
  title  = {Templated self-assembly of iron oxide nanoparticles},
  author = {M. J. Benitez and P. Szary and D. Mishra and M. Feyen and A. H. Lu and O. Petracic and H. Zabel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4166},
  year   = {2010}
}

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