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Preparation Techniques and Characterization of Electrodes with Nanostructured Surface
Hrdý, Radim ; Trnková, Libuše (referee) ; Janderka,, Pavel (referee) ; Hubálek, Jaromír (advisor)
Nowadays, nanostructures fixed on solid substrates and colloidal nanoparticles permeate through all areas of human life, in area of sensors and detection as well. This dissertation thesis deals with the fabrication of nanostructures on the surface of planar electrodes via self-ordered nanoporous template of aluminum trioxide. The nanofabrication, as one of many possible techniques, is used to increase the active surface area of electrodes by creating unique surface types with specific properties. These electrodes are very perspective in the applications, such as biomolecules electrochemical detection and measurement. The transformation of aluminum layer into non-conductive nanoporous template in the process of anodic oxidation is a fundamental technique employed to obtain the array of nanostructures in this thesis. The fabrication of high quality nanoporous membranes with narrow pore size distribution on various types of metallic multilayers is one of the key experimental parts in this work. Several problems associated with the production of the thin-film systems, including the dissolving the barrier oxide layer, are discussed and solved. Another part of this work deals with the use of nanoporous membrane as a template for the production of metallic nanostructures via electrochemical metal ions deposition directly into the pores. The obtained nanostructures as nanowires, nanorods or nanodots are characterized by the scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive or wavelength X-ray spectroscopy. The electrode surface, modified by gold nanostructures suitable for the detection of biomolecules, has been chosen for the electrochemical measurements, due to the gold biocompatibility. The nanostructured electrodes were characterized by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. The effect of nanostructured surface geometrical parameters, including the size of the electrochemically active area, on the results of electrochemical measurements has been observed and compared to flat gold electrodes. Two model biomolecules, namely guanine and glutathione, have been chosen for the study of potential application of these nanostructures in biosensors.
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Modification of semiconductor nanowire growth
Pejchal, Tomáš ; Grym, Jan (referee) ; Kolíbal, Miroslav (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with the growth of semiconductor nanowires on Ge(111) surface. The nanowires were prepared by means of PVD (physical vapor deposition). The growth was calatyzed by Au colloidal nanoparticles. An impact of different growth conditions on nanowire morfology is presented. It is demonstrated that Ge nanowires grow preferentially along axis. Ge wires with orientation were observed as well.
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Controlling of Nanostructure Temperature by Light Absorption
Kovács, Roland ; Schmidt,, Eduard (referee) ; Kalousek, Radek (advisor)
The thesis deals with a new versatile strategy which is aimed to heat up rapidly the nanostructures with the help of a focused light beam utilizing localized plasmons (collective oscillation of electrons). By local heating, the growth of the semiconductor nanowires can be initiated and controlled at any arbitrarily prespecified location down to the single nanostructure level in a chamber at room-temperature. The aim of the work is to study electromagnetic field in the selected structures, especially in metal nanospheres by using numeric calculations and computations of the thermal field in the vicinity of these illuminated nanostructures. Electromagnetic phenomena is simulated in Lumerical and the temperature field in COMSOL.
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Nanotechnology utilization in nuclear industry and research
Skalička, Jiří ; Štefánik, Milan (referee) ; Katovský, Karel (advisor)
This thesis introduces reader to current knowledge of nanomaterials and their usage. It summarises production methods and usage of different materials in nuclear power plants, nuclear research and nuclear medicine. Theoretical part of this thesis is dedicated to possible usage of carbon nanotubes for neutron beam collimation and guides. In experimental part different materials were tested in measuring box connected to horizontal radial channel of VR-1 nuclear reactor and their influence on neutron flux was measured. Tested samples were non-oriented carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, alumina nanowires, oriented carbon nanotubes with several angles of rotation and these samples were compared with results of graphite.
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Self-organized nanostructured oxide layers
Šťastná, Eva ; Pouchlý, Václav (referee) ; Jan, Vít (advisor)
Series of anodization experiments was conducted on pure aluminium (99,95 Goodfellow) substrates with the aim to map the possibilities and evaluate available techniques. Oxalic acid electrolyte was used for anodization at different voltage levels ranging from 20 to 60V, while current was always measured continuously during the experiment. The influence of substrate surface treatment, time and grain size of the substrate was documented for as anodized oxide structures using FEG-SEM. Well aligned and evenly distributed pores of the diameters ranging 20- 35 nm were achieved. Extremely fine pores down to 10 nm were achieved using the step-down technique governed by current limitation. Further post-anodizing treatment was evaluated – pore widening by chemical and electrochemical etching, which resulted in pores 80nm wide. The feasibility of electrodeposition of metallic wires directly into the AAO structure without substrate removal was evaluated. DC, AC symmetric and non-symmetric voltage setups were used. The deposition experiments results varied strongly depending on the post anodization treatment. For combination of pore-widening after anodizing with step-down stage, the deposition of copper nanowires was achieved. For simple step-down procedure, creation of very fine copper particles was realized using non-symmetric AC deposition. Further experiments and feasibility of metals electrodeposition in the AAO pores without substrate removal is discussed.
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Semiconductor nanowire growth modelling
Kovács, Roland ; Bartošík, Miroslav (referee) ; Kolíbal, Miroslav (advisor)
This bachelor’s thesis deals with modelling of semiconductor nanowires growth. The work describes the mechanism of growth using the VLS method. The main objective is to simulate the distribution of eutectic material in a droplet in the initial stage of growth. Mathematical models describing different situations of material diffusion in the droplet were depeloped. The simulation model is programmed in MATLAB.
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Surface-related 2D conductivity of nanocrystalline diamond in-plane nanowires
Rezek, Bohuslav ; Babchenko, Oleg ; Vetushka, Aliaksi ; Verveniotis, Elisseos ; Ledinský, Martin ; Fejfar, Antonín ; Kromka, Alexander
Diamond is an attractive material for nanoelectronics, biological interfaces and electrical transducers. Small device dimensions are highly demanded for higher sensitivity, parallelism, remote sensing and reduced costs. Recently we have demonstrated that directly grown nanocrystalline diamond micro-channels (down to 5 um widths) are feasible and fully operational as field-effect transistors using H-terminated surface conductivity.
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Studies of structural and magnetic properties of iron nanowires from first principles
Zelený, Martin ; Šob, Mojmír ; Hafner, J.
In this work we study the structure and stability of iron ultrathin free-standing nanowires by first-principles density functional approach. For total energy calculations, we use the Vienna ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) in the projector augmented-wave (PAW) representation. The evolution of electronic structure and magnetism of iron chains as a function of compression and stretch is investigated. The forming of different types of structures is analyzed: simple linear chain, dimerized chain, ideal two-dimensional (2D) zig-zag structure relaxed in x and y directions, fully relaxed 2D structure, and three-dimensional (3D) structure with tetrahedral arrangements. It turns out that the structure of iron nanowires and types of interatomic bonds are strongly dependent on their stretch or compression.
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