Nanosized particles deposited on shaped surface geometries

摘要

Devices with nanosized particles deposited on shaped surface geometries include a substrate with an active material of nanosized particles deposited on a surface of the substrate. The active material has an edge formed at a position determined with a shaped geometry of the surface.

主权项

1. A device comprising:
a substrate; and a plurality of droplets of carrier liquid, the carrier liquid comprising an active material of nanosized particles, wherein the droplets of carrier liquid are deposited on a surface of said substrate, and wherein the droplets of carrier liquid are deposited on a number of planes above a plurality of trenches defined in said substrate and comprise an edge formed at a position determined by a transition from the number of planes to the trenches, wherein the droplets of carrier liquid are deposited on the surface of the substrate to form an energy pathway comprising overlapping regions of active material relative to active material of a neighboring droplet of carrier liquid, wherein an offset between the trenches and a pinned edge of the active material is determined at least partially by the size of the nanosized particles within the active material.