Optically Induced Nanostructures: Biomedical and Technical Applications
Optically Induced Nanostructures: Biomedical and Technical Applications
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10.1515/9783110354324
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2015-01
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K. König;A. Ostendorf
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作者:
K. König;A. Ostendorf
Tightly focused 85MHz repetition rate sub-15 femtosecond pulsed laser light of a central wavelength at 800nm facilitates submicron and nanoscale processing of a large variety of materials. Three-dimensional polymer structures were generated by two-photon lithography and applied as cell culture substrates. Conically shaped capillaries with sub-100nm edges were produced in SU-8 for electrospray ionization. Indium tin oxide (ITO) nanowires resulted from recrystallization on sub-ablation threshold exposure and subsequent etching in hydrochloric acid. Nanowires on glass were applied as gas sensors, whereas free-standing nanowires acted as resonators with resonance frequencies in themegahertz range. Laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS)were generated on crystalline silicon surfaces and in thin ITOfilms at periodicities below200nm.Periodic nanocuts producedon-chip increased the effective area of ITOmulti-electrode arrays. ITO thin-film electrodes for liquid crystal (LC) applications were patterned by sub-15 fs LIPSS in order to facilitate LC alignment. The properties of the structures and the performance of the devices were investigated using the finiteelement method. 1.1 Laser microscopes – universal tools for imaging, manipulation, material characterization, and microand nanoprocessing Laser microscopes have existed for more than 50 years. In 1962, just two years after the invention of the laser, Bessis et al. reported on the use of a ruby laser microscope applied to expose cell organelles [1]. In the same year, Brech and Cross achieved a microemission of materials and introduced laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) [2]. Moreover, the LIBS instrument was commercialized by the company JarrellAsh. An advanced laser microscope LMA 1 was developed by VEB Carl Zeiss Jena in 1964 and presented in 1965 at the Leipzig Spring Fair. In contrast,most of the applications of today’smicroscopes focus onnon-destructive 3D imaging of materials and biological specimens. The first laser scanning imaging microscope, a further development of a Minsky confocal microscope, was built by Davidovits and Egger in 1969 using a 5mW helium-neon laser [3]. Conventional laser microscopes such as confocal laser scanning microscopes employ ultraviolet (UV) and visible (VIS) laser radiation. Laser microscopes have also been used as optical manipulation tools such as laser tweezers [4, 5]. © 2015 K. König et al., published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.