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Hydrocarbons inherently present in standard high-vacuum scanning electron microscopes can be favorably used for co-deposition with functional molecules injected into the chamber. By varying the beam exposure pulse time the carbon content incorporated into the deposit can be tuned. In the particular case when the hydrocarbons are provided by surface diffusion, the composition depends also on the size of the final deposits. This dependency can be used as an additional parameter, besides the beam pulse time, in order to tune the metal/matrix ratio and to obtain new nanoscale materials with tailored physical properties. We present and discuss experimental results on composition tunability by pulsed electron-beam deposition for the two-adsorbate system Co2(CO)8/hydrocarbon and their use in fabricating Hall nanosensors of cobalt-carbon nanocomposite material with enhanced magnetic sensitivity and high magnetic spatial resolution.
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Bending and vibration tests performed inside a scanning electron microscope were used to mechanically characterize high aspect pillars grown by focused electron-beam- (FEB) induced deposition from the precursor Cu(C(5)HF(6)O(2))(2). Supported by finite element (FE) analysis the Young's modulus was determined from load-deflection measurements using cantilever-based force sensing and the material density from additional resonance vibration analysis. The pillar material consisted of a carbonaceous (C-, O-, F-, H-containing) matrix which embeds 5-10 at.% Cu deposited at 5 and 20 keV primary electron energy and 100 pA beam current, depending on primary electron energy. The Young's moduli of the FEB deposits increased from 17 +/- 6 to 25 +/- 8 GPa with increasing electron dose. The density of the carbonaceous matrix shows a dependence on the primary electron energy: 1.2 +/- 0.3 g cm(-3) (5 keV) and 2.2 +/- 0.5 g cm(-3) (20 keV). At a given primary energy a correlation with the irradiation dose is found. Quality factors determined from the phase relation at resonance of the fundamental pillar vibration mode were in the range of 150-600 and correlated to the deposited irradiation energy.
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Baida and Van Labeke recently proposed a structure that exhibits a supertransmission of light through an array of nanometric coaxial apertures in a metallic film that has been named an annular aperture array (AAA) [Opt. Commun. 209, 17 (2002); Phys. Rev. B 67, 155314 (2003); J. Microsc. 213, 140 (2003)]. We present the first experimental study, to our knowledge, of an AAA structure in the visible region. For technological reasons, the structure under study does not produce a supertransmission of 80% as in Baida and Van Labeke [Opt. Commun. 209, 17 (2002)]. We built the nanostructure and experimentally recorded its far-field spectral response. This transmission shows only one broad band with a maximum around lambda = 700 nm, giving a maximum efficiency around 17%. A finite-difference time-domain simulation reproduces quite well the obtained transmission spectrum.
