Nanochannel glass materials

Nanochannel glass materials are an experimental mask technology that is an alternate method for fabricating nanostructures, although optical lithography is the predominant patterning technique.

In its simplest form, the hollow channels are arranged in geometric arrays with packing densities as great as 1011 channels/cm2.

This is a low cost method for creating identical structures with nanoscale features in large numbers.

[2][3] These materials have high density of uniform channels with diameters from 15 micrometres to 15 nanometers.

These can be used as a material for chromatographic columns, unidirectional conductors, Microchannel plate and nonlinear optical devices.

Nanochannel glass materials are complex glass structures containing large numbers of parallel hollow channels. Source: Naval Research Laboratory - Technology Transfer Office.