Design and Characterization of a 16-DOFs Nanorobotic Manipulation System for Repetitive and Pre-Programmable Tasks

Yu, Zhiqiang; Shi, Qing; Wei, Zihou; Chen, Xie; Wang, Huaping; Huang, Qiang; Fukuda, Toshio

doi:10.1109/tnano.2019.2951285

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“…To comprehensively understand the process of PVP pyrolysis, and subsequently the melting and flow of encapsulated Ag, we first assembled the MWCNT-Ag NW nanostructure and investigated the melting and flow process of the encapsulated Ag under SEM through a 16 DOFs nanorobotics system [14], and then obtained its morphology and the constituent elements of the products through high-resolution TEM (HRTEM) image and EDS mapping results in TEM. Figure 1a describes the self-organized PVP coating process of Ag NWs, while Figure 1b (left) demonstrates the typical SEM image of the PVP-coated Ag NWs.…”

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Controllable Melting and Flow of Ag in Self-Formed Amorphous Carbonaceous Shell for Nanointerconnection

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Nanointerconnection has been selected as a promising method in the post-Moore era to realize device miniaturization and integration. Even with many advances, the existing nanojoining methods still need further developments to meet the three-dimensional nanostructure construction requirements of the next-generation devices. Here, we proposed an efficient silver (Ag)-filled nanotube fabrication method and realized the controllable melting and ultrafine flow of the encapsulated silver at a subfemtogram (0.83 fg/s) level, which presents broad application prospects in the interconnection of materials in the nanometer or even subnanometer. We coated Ag nanowire with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) to obtain core–shell nanostructures instead of the conventional well-established nanotube filling or direct synthesis technique, thus overcoming obstacles such as low filling rate, discontinuous metalcore, and limited filling length. Electromigration and thermal gradient force were figured out as the dominant forces for the controllable flow of molten silver. The conductive amorphous carbonaceous shell formed by pyrolyzing the insulative PVP layer was also verified by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), which enabled the continued outflow of the internal Ag. Finally, a reconfigurable nanointerconnection experiment was implemented, which opens the way for interconnection error correction in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices.

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