Sajal Biring et al 2008 Nanotechnology 19 015304 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/19/01/015304
Sajal Biring1,2, Kun-Tong Tsai2, Ujjal Kumar Sur2,4 and Yuh-Lin Wang2,3,4
Show affiliationsA fast electrochemical replication technique has been developed to fabricate large-scale ultra-smooth aluminum foils by exploiting readily available large-scale smooth silicon wafers as the masters. Since the adhesion of aluminum on silicon depends on the time of surface pretreatment in water, it is possible to either detach the replicated aluminum from the silicon master without damaging the replicated aluminum and master or integrate the aluminum film to the silicon substrate. Replicated ultra-smooth aluminum foils are used for the growth of both self-organized and lithographically guided long-range ordered arrays of anodic alumina nanochannels without any polishing pretreatment.
Surfaces, interfaces and thin films
Issue 1 (9 January 2008)
Received 4 September 2007, in final form 9 November 2007
Published 29 November 2007
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