Tunable Wettability of Ferroelectric Lithium Niobate Surfaces: The Role of Engineered Microstructure and Tailored Metallic Nanostructures

Tunable Wettability of Ferroelectric Lithium Niobate Surfaces : The Role of Engineered Microstructure and Tailored Metallic Nanostructures

QC 20170509
An important aspect of optimizing micro- and optofluidic devices for lab on -a-chip systems is the ability to engineer materials properties including surface structure and charge to control wettability. Biocompatible ferroelectric lithium niobate (LN), which is well-known for acoustic and nonlinear optical applications, has recently found potential micro- and optofluidic applications. However, the tunable wettability of such substrates has yet to be explored in detail. Here, we show that the contact angle of LN substrates can be reproducibly tailored between similar to 7 degrees and similar to 421 degrees by controlling the surface topography and chemistry at the nano- and micrometer scale via ferroelectric domain and polarization engineering and polarization-directed photoassisted deposition of metallic nanostructures.

Manzo, MicheleKTH,Tillämpad fysik(Swepub:kth)u1a48z99 (författare)
Gallo, Katia,1972-KTH,Kvantelektronik och -optik, QEO(Swepub:kth)u148rx0z (författare)
Rice, James H. (författare)
Rodriguez, Brian J. (författare)
KTHTillämpad fysik (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: AMER CHEMICAL SOC121:12, s. 6643-66491932-74471932-7455

Av författaren/redakt...: Al-Shammari, Rus ...; Manzo, Michele; Gallo, Katia, 19 ...; Rice, James H.; Rodriguez, Brian ...

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