By Emil Venere -
A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system to inexpensively mass produce innovations such as "plasmonic metamaterials" for advanced technologies.
The metamaterials have engineered surfaces that contain features, patterns or elements on the scale of nanometers that enable unprecedented control of light and could bring innovations such as high-speed electronics, advanced sensors and solar cells.
The new method, called laser shock imprinting, creates shapes out of the crystalline forms of metals, potentially giving them ideal mechanical and optical properties using a bench-top system capable of mass producing the shapes inexpensively.
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Ref: Large Scale Nanoshaping of Ultrasmooth 3D Crystalline Metallic Structures - Huang Gao, Yaowu Hu, Yi Xuan, Ji Li, Yingling Yang, Ramses V. Martinez, Chunyu Li, Jian Luo, Minghao Qi and Gary J. Cheng - Science, 12 December 2014: Vol. 346 no. 6215 pp. 1352-1356, DOI: 10.1126/science.1260139
New method creates various nanoshapes to further nanomanufacturing technology
