- 17 September 2005 -

Misted deposition

Nano Electronics, an Advance Nanotech subsidiary, has licensed the ferroelectric nanotube manufacturing technology of Samco, Japan and the University of Cambridge, UK

Samco and the University of Cambridge began collaborating in the field of thin film deposition systems for ferroelectric films in 1999. The ferroelectric nanotube manufacturing technology is based on Samcos 'misted deposition' technique, which enables the simultaneous fabrication on large numbers of micro-devices, a significant breakthrough in this vital process.

Until now, conventional CVD and RIE processing techniques were incapable of accomplishing this. The licensing agreement extends on the highly successful, six year relationship between Samco and Cambridge.

The research on ferroelectric nanotube manufacturing at Cambridge has been led by Professor James Scott, a global authority in the field of ferroelectrics research.
For the past six years, he has been an integral part of the Samco/Cambridge Laboratory, which has driven the discoveries covered by the agreement.

This group is responsible for the 2003 development of the world's first technique for manufacturing ferroelectric nanotubes. Samco and Cambridge have since filed numerous joint patents on the technology.

There are high expectations for applications in next generation ink-jet printer heads, which require liquid flow control precision on the picoliter order. In addition, there is excellent potential for use in fields such as new micro-TAS devices, bio-chips, and drug delivery systems.