%0 Journal Article
%T Combining nanoscale manipulation with macroscale relocation of single quantum dots
%A Francesca Paola Quacquarelli
%A Richard A. J. Woolley
%A Martin Humphry
%A Jasbiner Chauhan
%J Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.3762/bjnano.3.36
%X We have controllably positioned, with nanometre precision, single CdSe quantum dots referenced to a registration template such that the location of a given nanoparticle on a macroscopic (¡Ö1 cm2) sample surface can be repeatedly revisited. The atomically flat sapphire substrate we use is particularly suited to optical measurements of the isolated quantum dots, enabling combined manipulation¨Cspectroscopy experiments on a single particle. Automated nanoparticle manipulation and imaging routines have been developed so as to facilitate the rapid assembly of specific nanoparticle arrangements.
%K automation
%K nanoscale manipulation
%K nanotechnology
%K quantum dots
%K single molecule spectroscopy
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.3.36