3D Nanofabrication by Self-assembly

David Gracias
Johns Hopkins Univ. / USA

Self-assembly is a bottom-up biological assembly process wherein components assemble themselves via programmed interactions to form nanostructures such as viruses or intracellular organelles in a highly parallel and cost-effective manner. Recently, it has been suggested that it might be possible to mimic this concept with synthetic electronic components.

I will briefly discuss strategies that utilize a combination of this bottom-up approach with top-down e-beam or nanoimprint lithographically patterned thin films and their assembly into precisely patterned curved and polyhedral nanostructures via folding. I will also briefly detail software and hardware strategies to aggregate polyhedral E-blocks to form 3D electronic circuits.