Leland Stanford Junior University

Honda Patents & Technologies North America, LLC

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Munekazu Motoyama

Friedrich B Prinz

Neil Dasgupta

Timothy P Holme

Andrei Teodor Iancu

Hitoshi Iwadate

Takane Usui

Michael C Langston

Hee Joon Jung

Cheng-Chieh Chao

A method of fabricating quantum confinements is provided. The method includes depositing, using a deposition apparatus, a material layer on a substrate, where the depositing includes irradiating the layer, before a cycle, during a cycle, and/or after a cycle of the deposition to alter nucleation of quantum confinements in the material layer to control a size and/or a shape of the quantum confinements. The quantum confinements can include quantum wells, nanowires, or quantum dots. The irradiation can be in-situ or ex-situ with respect to the deposition apparatus. The irradiation can include irradiation by photons, electrons, or ions. The deposition is can include atomic layer deposition, chemical vapor deposition, MOCVD, molecular beam epitaxy, evaporation, sputtering, or pulsed-laser deposition.

Irradiation assisted nucleation of quantum confinements by atomic layer deposition

A method of making nanowire probes is provided. The method includes providing a template having a nanoporous structure, providing a probe tip that is disposed on top of the template, and growing nanowires on the probe tip, where the nanowires are grown from the probe tip along the nanopores, and the nanowires conform to the shape of the nanopores.

Method for producing tapered metallic nanowire tips on atomic force microscope cantilevers

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Kumamoto, Japan

Munekazu Motoyama