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Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium
Stefano Cabrini, "3 Dimensional Single Digit Nanofabrication: Organization of Nanostructures with Dimensions Below 10 nm"
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Abstract:
We use the term “single-digit nanofabrication” (SDN) to describe the structuring and characterization of materials whose key features are defined and resolved on a scale of 10 nm or less. Achieving single-digit nano resolution in synthesis and fabrication is a central challenge for the development of next-generation functional nanoscale and mesoscale materials. Single digit nanostructured materials have special properties with regard to the control and flow of energy. Energy can take, for example, electronic, magnetic, thermal or photonic forms. We will focus on how material components can be structured with high accuracy and precision in classical lithographic processes 2D and how we can achieve new or improved properties in 3D fabrication. A special attention will be devoted to nanophotonics. Nanophotonics covers light interactions with transparent dielectric materials and plasmonic effects in metallic structures. In addition, we have emerging efforts in exciton transport in organized nanomaterials. We will discuss these advances and future directions in the subsequent sections.
Dr. Stefano Cabrini is the Director of the Nanofabrication Facility at the Molecular Foundry (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) since 2006. Molecular Foundry is one of the five DOE NanoScale Research Center, a user oriented facility. Stefano Cabrini got his Laurea degree at “Universita’ degli studi di Roma La Sapienza”; his postdoctoral experience was at the IOTA Inst. Theor. & Appl. Optics (France). He worked as researcher at CNR Istituto di Elettronica dello Stato Solido (IESS) of Rome Italy and as senior scientist at Sincrotrone Triese ScpA and INFM ELETTRA Synchrotron Light Source of Trieste Italy. He has over 170 publications in the field of nanofabrication and 25 years of experience in experimental physics, 18 years of experience in micro-nano-fabrication, electron-beam lithography, focused ion beam lithography, thin-film deposition and plasma etch processing. Also Dr. Cabrini has experience in nanophotonic and metamaterials (metallic and dielectric resonators), semiconductor device fabrication, optical device fabrication, N-MEMS fabrication, and the development of new lithographic tools. Recently he focuses on the so called Single Digit Nano Fabrication, or exact fabrication and organization of nanostructures with dimensions below 10 nm. He is the co-editor with Prof Satoshi Kawata of the book: “Nanofabrication Handbook” CRC Press 2012.
