The current trend of ceramic nanotechnology has
motivated an ever-increasing need to achieve
exquisite control over size, shape, and dimensional
confinement of functional oxide architectures, in an
equivalent manner realized for semiconductors.
However, the unique nature of ceramics poses major
challenges for most traditional nanofabrication
technologies, putting the development of innovative
oxide nanopatterning schemes under the spotlight.
This book discusses major challenges for ceramic
nanofabrication and reviews patterning methods that
are suitable for this unique materials family. Stress
is laid upon the variable pressure soft-electron beam
lithography (VP-soft-eBL). Examples of ceramic
nanopatterns prepared using VP-sof-eBL are presented,
along with the strategy employed to control their
microstructure and morphology. The reported work of
building and tailoring constrained ceramic
nanostructures lays the groundwork for in-depth
exploration in the rich phenomena related to
spatial/dimensional confinement. This study should be
useful to professionals or any reader interested in
ceramic nanotechnology, nanopatterning and
general materials science fields.
motivated an ever-increasing need to achieve
exquisite control over size, shape, and dimensional
confinement of functional oxide architectures, in an
equivalent manner realized for semiconductors.
However, the unique nature of ceramics poses major
challenges for most traditional nanofabrication
technologies, putting the development of innovative
oxide nanopatterning schemes under the spotlight.
This book discusses major challenges for ceramic
nanofabrication and reviews patterning methods that
are suitable for this unique materials family. Stress
is laid upon the variable pressure soft-electron beam
lithography (VP-soft-eBL). Examples of ceramic
nanopatterns prepared using VP-sof-eBL are presented,
along with the strategy employed to control their
microstructure and morphology. The reported work of
building and tailoring constrained ceramic
nanostructures lays the groundwork for in-depth
exploration in the rich phenomena related to
spatial/dimensional confinement. This study should be
useful to professionals or any reader interested in
ceramic nanotechnology, nanopatterning and
general materials science fields.