1. Selective atomic layer deposition of titanium oxide on patterned self-assembled monolayers formed by microcontact printing.
We demonstrate a selective atomic layer deposition of TiO_(2) thin films on patterned alkylsiloxane self-assembled monolaye...
1. Selective atomic layer deposition of titanium oxide on patterned self-assembled monolayers formed by microcontact printing.
We demonstrate a selective atomic layer deposition of TiO_(2) thin films on patterned alkylsiloxane self-assembled monolayers. Microcontact printing was done to prepare patterned monolayers of the alkylsiloxane on Si substrate. The patterned monolayers define and direct the selective deposition of the TiO_(2) thin film using atomic layer deposition. The selective atomic layer deposition is based on the fact that the TiO_(2) thin film is selectively deposited only on the regions exposing the silanol groups of the Si substrates because the regions covered with the alkylsiloxane monolayers do not have any functional group to react with precursors.
2. Atomic layer deposition of Titanium oxide on self-assembled monolayer-coated gold.
We demonstrate an atomic layer deposition of TiO_(2) thin films on self-assembled monolayers of ω-functionalized alkanethiolates. The TiO_(2) thin films were grown on OH-terminated alkanethiolate monolayer-coated gold by atomic layer deposition at 100℃. The atomic layer deposition of the TiO_(2) thin films is self-controlled and extremely linear relative to the number of cycles. Selective deposition of the TiO_(2) thin film using atomic layer deposition was accomplished with patterned self-assembled monolayers as templates. Microcontact printing was one to prepare the patterned monolayers of the alkanethiolates on gold substrates. The selective atomic layer deposition is based on the fact that the TiO_(2) thin film is selectively deposited only on the regions exposing OH-terminated alkanethiolate monolayers of the gold substrates, because the regions covered with CH_(3)-terminated monolayers do not have any functional group to react with precursors.