Liquid Crystal Foams Generated by Pressure-Driven Microfluidic Devices

Shuojia Shi and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, United States
Langmuir, 2015, 31 (15), pp 4429–4434

SAMCO Bench-top Plasma Etching System (RIE etcher) was used for surface activation and bonding of PDMS and glass in microfluidic device fabrication.

For more information on plasma cleaners which are suitable for PDMS plasma treatment to improve surface wettability, please visit the product pages below.
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N₂-Plasma-Assisted One-Step Alignment and Patterning of Graphene Oxide on a SiO₂/Si Substrate Via the Langmuir–Blodgett Technique

Neha Chauhan, Vivekanandan Palaninathan, Sreejith Raveendran, Aby Cheruvathoor Poulose, Yoshikata Nakajima, Takashi Hasumura, Takashi Uchida, Tatsuro Hanajiri, Toru Maekawa and D. Sakthi Kumar
Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
Advanced Materials Interfaces 2015 2 (5)

Samco basic plasma research kit was used for surface modification of SiO₂/Si in nitrogen plasma for selective placement and patterning of monolayer Graphene Oxide.

Methanol Adsorption on TiO₂ Film Studied by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

Ran-ran Feng^a,b, An-an Liu^a,b, Shuo Liu^a,b, Jiao-jian Shi^a,b, Yi Liu^a,b and Ze-feng Ren^a,b
a International Center for Quantum Materials (ICQM) and School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
^b Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
Chin. J. Chem. Phys. 28, 11 (2015)

Samco UV-Ozone cleaner was used for surface cleaning of TiO₂ thin film in sample preparation.
Peking University is a proud customer of Samco UV-Ozone system, UV-1.

Doubling Absorption in Nanowire Solar Cells with Dielectric Shell Optical Antennas

Sun-Kyung Kim^† Xing Zhang^‡ David J. Hill^‡ Kyung-Deok Song^§ Jin-Sung Park^§ Hong-Gyu Park^§ and James F. Cahoon^‡
†Department of Applied Physics, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, Republic of Korea
^‡Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States
^§Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Republic of Korea
Nano Lett. 2015, 15, 753−758

Samco UV-Ozone cleaner, UV-1 was used for SU-8 stripping in nanowire-based device fabrication.

The improved piezoelectric properties of ZnO nanorods with oxygen plasma treatment on the single layer graphene coated polymer substrate

Mushtaque Hussain, Mazhar Ali Abbasi, Zafar Hussain Ibupoto, Omer Nur and Magnus Willander
Physical Electronic & Nanotechnology division, Department of Science &Technology, Campus Norrköping, Linköping University, SE-60174 Norrköping, Sweden.
physica status solidi (a) Volume 211, Issue 2, pages 455–459, February 2014

ZnO nanorods were treated with an oxygen plasma using SAMCO Plasma Etching System (RIE etcher) to reduce the defect levels.

Multi-channel PMMA microfluidic biosensor with integrated IDUAs for electrochemical detection

Nongnoot Wongkaew^a,b, Peng He^b, Vanessa Kurth^b, Werasak Surareungchai^a, and Antje J. Baeumner^b
aSchool of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkhuntien, Bangkok 10150,Thailand ^bDepartment of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 202 Riley Robb Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Anal Bioanal Chem. 2013 July ; 405(18): 5965–5974. doi:10.1007/s00216-013-7020-0.

Samco UV-Ozone Cleaner at Cornell University was used for oxidation of PMMA to generate carboxylic groups on the surface in microfluidic biosensor fabrication. Samco UV-Ozone cleaners are used for many R&D labs of polymer biosensor fabrication for bonding of polymer materials, such as PDMS, PMMA , COP & COC.

Formation of low resistance ohmic contacts in GaN-based high electron mobility transistors with BCl₃ surface plasma treatment

Tatsuya Fujishima¹, Sameer Joglekar¹, Daniel Piedra¹, Hyung-Seok Lee¹, Yuhao Zhang¹, Akira Uedono² and Tomás Palacios^1
1 Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA
² Division of Applied Physics, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 083508 (2013)

Surface treatment technique to reduce the resistance and to increase the uniformity of ohmic contacts in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors was developed using Samco ICP etch system.

For more details of our process solutions for GaN power device fabrication, please visit the page below.
AlGaN/GaN Etch for GaN Power Device Fabrication

Transparent Electrode Materials for Simultaneous Amperometric Detection of Exocytosis and Fluorescence Microscopy

Kassandra Kisler¹, Brian N. Kim¹, Xin Liu², Khajak Berberian¹, Qinghua Fang¹, Cherian J. Mathai³, Shubhra Gangopadhyay³, Kevin D. Gillis^2,4, and Manfred Lindau^1
1 School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA
² Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO USA
³ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO USA
⁴ Departments of Biological Engineering and Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO USA
J Biomater Nanobiotechnol. 2012 ; 3(2A): 243–253.

Samco UV-Ozone cleaner at Cornell University was used for photoresist descum in sample preparation.

Our UV-Ozone cleaners are equipped with stage heating and ozone generator, and they enable high-speed photoresist ashing & stripping. The processes can be applied for photoresist decsum application. For more information on our UV-Ozone cleaners, please visit the product page below.
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