Microfluidic spatial growth of vertically aligned ZnO nanostructures by soft lithography for antireflective patterning
- Resource Type
- Original Paper
- Authors
- Mehare, Rupali S.; Devarapalli, Rami Reddy; Yenchalwar, Sandeep G.; Shelke, Manjusha V.
- Source
- Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. July 2013 15(1):1-9
- Subject
- ZnO nanostructures
Microfluidics
Soft lithography
Micropatterning
Antireflective structures
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1613-4982
1613-4990
Hierarchical assemblies of nanostructured building blocks on conducting substrates are significant for construction of functional devices. Microfluidics is powerful but less exploited tool for spatial organization or growth of functionally sophisticated nanostructures with precise control. In this paper, we introduce a simple but unique strategy for the hydrothermal synthesis and patterned assembly of ZnO nanostructures within microchannels by soft lithography technique. Optical/antireflection properties of such hierarchically structured nanostructures are studied.