Advanced Nanomachining

Dear Colleagues,

In the past few decades, tremendous advances have been achieved in nanoscience and nanotechnologies. Novel understandings of nanoscale are still being continuously reported in a broad spectrum of scientific research. At the same time, revolutionary progress has been made in industries benefiting from the development of nanotechnologies. From a technological perspective, most of the achievements are built upon the ability to fabricate and manipulate objects on a nanoscale with high precision and reproducibility. With the advanced fabrication techniques in semiconductor industries, we can manufacture nanostructures accurately on a wafer scale and realize complicated device architectures. Even smaller critical dimensions are pursued towards atomic scale with advanced lithographic methods, and nanostructures with complex 3D geometries are manufactured with novel techniques, e.g., two-photon polymerization and 3D plasma etching processes. Due to specific applications, nanomachining strategies are also being developed on various material platforms, e.g., polymer-based nanostructures for biomedicines and III–V materials for integrated photonic circuits. This Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles focused on i) novel fabrication strategies on a nanoscale, e.g., with electron beam lithography, nanoscale plasma etching, 3D printing, etc.; and ii) nanomachining on novel material platforms such as polymers and 2D materials.     

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Dr. Bingdong Chang
Dr. Ding Zhao
Guest Editors

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