Construction of highly ordered lamellar nanostructures through langmuir-blodgett deposition of molecularly thin titania nanosheets tens of micrometers wide and their excellent dielectric properties

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1097-1106

  Akatsuka, Kosho ^a,b   Haga, Masa Aki ^c   Ebina, Yasuo ^a   Osada, Minoru ^a   Fukuda, Katsutoshi ^a   Sasaki, Takayoshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dielectric properties; Langmuir Blodgett procedure; Layer by layer deposition; Multilayer film; Nanosheet

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION BAND; AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS; ARTIFICIAL LATTICE; BASAL REFLECTIONS; CROSS SECTIONAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DEPOSITED LAYER; INSULATING PROPERTIES; INTERFERENCE FUNCTIONS; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT DEPOSITION; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT PROCEDURE; LATERAL SIZES; LATTICE STRAIN; LAYER-BY-LAYER; LAYER-BY-LAYER DEPOSITION; LAYER-BY-LAYER GROWTH; MONOLAYER DEPOSITION; NANO FILMS; NANO-ARCHITECTURE; PROGRESSIVE ENHANCEMENT; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM IONS; SMALL SATELLITES; SUBSTRATE SURFACE; SUPPORTING ELECTROLYTE; SURFACE COMPRESSION; SURFACE PRESSURES; TITANIA NANOSHEET; UNILAMELLAR; UV LIGHT; UV VISIBLE ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; VAPOR PHASE DEPOSITION; VARIOUS SUBSTRATES; WILLIAMSON-HALL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA;

ABSORPTION; AMINES; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CERAMIC CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; LIGHT; MONOLAYERS; MULTILAYER FILMS; MULTILAYERS; PHASE INTERFACES; REFLECTION; SUBSTRATES; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRATHIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

NANOSHEETS;

NANOMATERIAL; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; IMPEDANCE; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 66949120244     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900104u     Document Type: Article

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