Images of the researchers' diamond tips compared to traditional silicon tips, before and after scanning for 1.2 meters.
One of the most promising innovations of nanotechnology has been the ability to perform rapid nanofabrication using nanometer-scale tips. Heating such tips can dramatically increase fabrication speeds, but high speed and high temperature have been known to blunt their atomically sharp points. Now, research conducted by a team that included the University of Pennsylvania's Robert Carpick and Tevis Jacobs has created a new type of nano-tip for thermal processing, which is made entirely made out of diamond. Carpick is a professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Science ; Tevis is a doctoral student in Carpick's lab. The research team was led by William King of the University of Illinois ' Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering and involved his group members Hoe-Joon Kim, Suhas Somnath and Jonathan Felts. Researchers from Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc. Mike Moldovan and John Carlisle, also contributed to the study.
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