The design, fabrication and characterization of controlled-morphology
nanomaterials and functional planar nanostructures for nanoelectronics and
nanotechnology
Gennady B. Khomutov1 (

),
S. A. Pavlov
1, A. Yu. Obydenov
1,
A. N. Sergeev-Cherenkov
1, Eugene S. Soldatov
1,
S. P. Gubin
2, (

)
1Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
2Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry RAS, Moscow, Russia.
The advancements in nanoelectronics are currently based on the two main
approaches. The first is concerned with further decrease in sizes of
conventional circuit elements via developments in lithography and
semiconductor processing techniques. In the other approach the functional
elements are being formed starting with atoms and molecules via nanoscale
controlled assembly and self-organization processes. It seems that new
perspective technological solutions in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology can
be found on the way of building up of hybrid constructions in which advantages
of both approaches are combined effectively. Clusters, nanoparticles and
functional molecular nanostructures are currently considered as potential
building blocks for nanotechnology and nanoelectronics circuits, and the
development and introduction of new methods to control effectively its
structure, composition and purposeful nanoscale organization are necessary.
This presentation describes a number of new synthetic and assembling
nanofabrication methods developed in our group which are based on the surface
and interface interactions, effects of applied fields, biomimetic and
bio-inspired strategies. The methods allow to produce organized nanostructures
with unique morphologies, as nanorings, nanorods, platelike nanoparticles,
complex magnetic

-Fe
2O
3
ramified nanostructures, noble metal
optically-active nanoparticles of different sizes with very high surface to
volume ratio and core-shell structures, ordered quasi-3-D, 2-D and 1-D arrays
of nanoparticles, nanoclusters and metalloproteins, planar DNA complexes.
Electron transport and discrete electron tunneling effects were studied in the
synthesized nanostructures.