| Experimental manipulation of gold nano-particles by Atomic Force Microscope and investigating effect of various working parameters |
| Paper ID : 2116-UFGNSM13-FULL |
| Authors: |
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Seyed Abbas Shahmoradi Zavareh *1, Hamid Akbari Moayyer2, Mohammad Amin Ahouei3 1Ara Research Co, Pardis Techno Park, 20th Km Damavand Rd, Tehran, Iran 21-Ara Research Co., Pardis Techno Park, Tehran, Iran
2-School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14395-553, Tehran, Iran 3Ara Research Co., Pardis Techno Park, Tehran, Iran |
| Abstract: |
| Due to involvement of various fields of engineering and bio researchers in nano projects and their need in achieving certain layout of nano-particles (NPs) in many research studies, considerable attention is paid to nanomanipulation nowadays. The present experimental study employs Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in order to push gold nano-particles on a highly flat mica surface. A silicon probe in contact mode is used to both image and manipulate nano-particles and Topo and L-R images have been obtained to show the successes of manipulation when proper conditions are fulfilled. The effect of AFM parameters such as applied force, scanning speed and number of pixels of image on nanomanipulation efficiency is investigated. Moreover, the tip is moved along a special path which can be set by software to study manipulation of nano-particles aggregates. Finally, possible applications of nanomanipulation in nano-mechanics, nano-electronics, nano-materials and bio-technology are reported and further experimental research works on nanomanipulation are proposed. |
| Keywords: |
| Manipulation, Atomic Force Microscope, Gold nano-particles |
| Status : Paper Accepted (Poster Presentation) |
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