Entries tagged with Caroline Ross

• Templated Self-Assembly Using Physical Templates with Majority-block Brushes

  • In this study, we demonstrated a high-resolution method for doubling the spatial frequency of lines and dots of structures defined…

• Self-assembled Hetero-structured Oxides

  • We are studying BiFeO3/CoFe2O4 oxide composite thin films, which have the remarkable characteristic of self-assembling into vertical nanostructures during their…

• Integrated Optical Isolators

  • We have experimentally demonstrated a monolithically integrated ultra-compact optical isolator on silicon. This device uses a different design strategy from…

• Magnetic Domain Wall Logic

  • We are interested in using ferromagnetic materials to engineer more energy-efficient transistors and logic gates.  Transistors today are limited by…

• Templated Self-assembly of Block Copolymers for Nanolithography

  • Self-organized macromolecular materials can provide an alternative pathway to conventional lithography for the fabrication of devices on the nanometer scale….

• Modeling and Theoretical Design Methods for Self-assembly of Block Copolymers

  • Block copolymer self-assembly on nanolithographically-defined templates has great potential in fabricating patterned media and devices at the nanometer scale.  Current…

• Magnetooptical and Magnetic Oxides for Optical Isolators and Magnetoelectronic Devices

  • We maintain a thin-film laboratory that includes a pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) system and an ultra-high vacuum sputter system. The PLD…

• 360-degree Magnetic Domain Walls

  • Many domain wall (DW) devices require the presence of multiple DWs, each of which may need to be independently controlled…

• Magnetic Ring Devices for Memory and Logic

  • We are investigating the fabrication and magnetic properties of rings (Figure 1) for magnetic logic and memory devices. The magnetic…

• Templated Dewetting of Metal Films

  • Magnetic metal nanoparticle arrays have attracted considerable interest for applications in patterned magnetic recording media as well as catalyst arrays…

• Device Fabrication Using Block Copolymer Lithography

  • Block copolymers can be used to make a variety of functional electronic or magnetic devices. We have developed pattern transfer…

• Self-assembly of Triblock Terpolymers

  • Triblock terpolymers are interesting because they can form a much wider diversity of 3D structures than diblock copolymers, including rings…

• Caroline A. Ross

  • Fabrication, properties and applications of magnetic and magnetooptical films, nanostructures and devices; self assembly, block copolymer lithography.

• Templated Self-assembly of Block Copolymer for High Throughput Sub-10-nm Fabrication

  • Templated self-assembly of block copolymer, based on topographic templates defined by electron-beam lithography (EBL), is an attractive candidate for next…