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Micro Fabrication Systems Lab
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The lab controls how atoms pile up to create nanoscale shapes.
AboutAbout the lab
Controlling nanoscale shapes to create new functions
The Micro Fabrication Systems Lab studies how to control tiny shapes on the nanometer scale by using the process in which atoms and molecules accumulate on a surface.
Controlling nanoscale shapes yields unique and useful properties that uniform materials do not have.
The lab's research is wide-ranging, from searching for new functions to practical application.
Also known as the Suzuki-Namura Lab, it also studies the motion of tiny bubbles (microbubbles) generated by light.
Key terms
- Vapor deposition
- A method of evaporating metal or other material in a vacuum and depositing it as a thin layer on the surface of a substrate
- Nanowire
- A very thin, wire-like crystal whose thickness is on the nanometer scale
- Microbubble
- An extremely small bubble with a diameter on the micrometer scale
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The lab seeks to understand the process by which vapor of atoms and molecules condenses on a solid surface, and uses it to control the shape of nanometer-scale elements. Its work ranges from exploring the new properties that nanoscale shapes bring to practical application.
*Illustrative imageFreely Creating Nanoscale Shapes
When vapor of metals or oxides is deposited onto a substrate at an oblique angle in a vacuum, tiny columnar structures grow spontaneously. By changing the orientation of the substrate, the lab creates shapes such as helices and zigzags, and designs how to make them with its own simulator.
*Illustrative imageNew Methods for Controlling Nanostructures
The lab develops new techniques for controlling nanoscale shapes based on previously unknown mechanisms. It discovered that single-crystal nanowires grow when material is deposited obliquely onto a high-temperature substrate, and applications in electronics and sensors are expected.
*Illustrative imageMoving Interfaces and Bubbles Created by Light
Using light, the lab creates two tiny bubbles at the same time and observes their oscillations with an ultrahigh-speed camera while precisely changing the distance between them. It showed that as the bubbles approach each other, their oscillations influence one another, producing beats and oscillations in opposite directions.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMotofumi Suzuki
- Associate ProfessorKyoko Namura
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Danos Cristalográficos 5” Hebert Folli / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Freely Creating Nanoscale Shapes: “TiO2 nanostructures” ZhanserikKT / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- New Methods for Controlling Nanostructures: “Nanowires on si substrate” Deatharmony / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Moving Interfaces and Bubbles Created by Light: “Air bubbles inside a piece of glass” photophilde / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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