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Controlled Trapping of Onion-Like Carbon (OLC) via Dielectrophoresis

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Manipulation of onion-like carbon (OLC), also known as carbon nano-onions (CNOs), at the level of various arrays of microelectrodes is vital in practical applications such as biological and chemical sensing, ultracapacitors (supercapacitors), electromagnetic shielding, catalysis, tribology, optical limiting and molecular junctions in scanning tunneling microscopy, and field-effect transistors. In spite of technological developments in this area, rigorous handling of carbon nano-onions towards desired locations within a device remains a challenge, and the quantity of OLC required significantly influences the price of the final electrical or electronic device. We present herein an experimental study on electromanipulation and trapping of onion-like carbon (OLC) at the level of gold-patterned interdigitated microelectrodes through dielectrophoresis. The influence of the magnitude as well as frequency of the alternating-current (AC) voltage employed for OLC trapping is discussed in detail. The effects of tuning the AC field strength and frequency on the OLC trapping behavior are also considered.

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Financial support from the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development, and Innovation (UEFISCDI) through the National Plan for Research, Development, and Innovation 2007–2013—Joint Applied Research Projects, 2013 Competition, Contract No. 43/2014 (PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4), funded under the Joint Applied Research Projects—Parteneriate 2013, is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Profesor Dimitrie Mangeron, nr. 21- 23, Iasi, 700050, Romania

    Marius Olariu & Alexandru Arcire

  2. Institute of Chemistry, University of Bialystok, Białystok, Poland

    Marta E. Plonska-Brzezinska

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Olariu, M., Arcire, A. & Plonska-Brzezinska, M.E. Controlled Trapping of Onion-Like Carbon (OLC) via Dielectrophoresis. J. Electron. Mater. 46, 443–450 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-016-4870-1

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