19ENG05 NanoWires
"High throughput metrology for nanowire energy harvesting devices"
A Joint Research Project within the European Metrology Research Programme EMPIR
This is the news page of the Empir project 19ENG05 Nanowires.
The official website is hosted by PTB at the following link. This page is periodically updated by the INRiM project members.
Nanowires arrays!
A new approach to the fabrication of Silicon nanowires arrays by nanosphere self-assembly lithography and Deep RIE has been developed in the framework of the cooperation between TU Braunschweig and INRiM. Read more on the fabrication process [...]
Nanowires samples delivered
WP1 and WP4 Nanowires samples produced at INRiM by nanospheres lithography and Metal Assisted Chemical Etching have been delivered to PTB, LNE, VSL, DFM and GUM for dimensional metrology measurements on June 2021. Read more on the fabrication process and on the WP1 and WP4 tasks & deliverables [...]
Silicon NanoWires by MACE
The silicon nanowires at INRiM are extruded by a metal mask with MACE (Metal Assisted Chemical Etching) technique and covered by 40 nm of gold deposition. [...]
Nanowires forest
Extruded by a holey metal mask, a residual is visible at the image centre, by means of a liquid chemical etching in HF and hydrogen peroxide. [...]
What are NanoWires?
Nanowires are structures in cylindrical form with straight or curved aspects. They have lengths in the range of a few micrometers [...]10-11 July 2023: Nanowires final and Stakeholders meeting!
On Monday the 10th and 11th of July 2023, at the PTB premises in Braunschweig, the Nanowires final meeting in conjunction with the 3rd Stakeholders webinar have been held . [Read more...]
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 8th 9th of November 2022 [Read more...]
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 8th 9th of November 2022 [Read more...]
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 8th 9th of November 2022 [Read more...]
M27 Meeting in presence, VSL Delft, The Netherlands, 8-9 November 2022
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 8th 9th of November 2022 [Read more...]
M26 WP1 Progress meeting webcall on October the 18th, 2022.
Tuesday, the 18th of October 2022 [Read more...]
VAMAS Steering Committe 47 meeting at INRiM on October 17th-21st, 2022, Torino, Italy.
Monday, the 17th of October 2022 [Read more...]
VAMAS Technical Working Area 2, Surface Analysis, held in Brescia on October 4th-5th, 2022, Brescia, Italy.
Tuesday, the 4th of October 2022 [Read more...]
Oral contribution on "large-scale Si NWs" from TU Braunschweig to the MNE Eurosensors 2022 conference, September 19th-23rd, 2022, Leuven, Belgium.
Monday, the 19th of September 2022 [Read more...]
Jiushuai Xu and Erwin Peiner from TU Braunschweig visited INRiM Labs for project collaboration, on June 30th, 2022, INRiM Torino, Italy
Thursday, the 30th of June 2022 [Read more...]
Erwin Peiner Invited Talk on 9th Forum on New Materials (CIMTEC 2022) on June 27th, 2022, Perugia, Italy
Monday, the 27th of June 2022 [Read more...]
M22 WP Leaders Meeting, June 2022
Monday, the 13th of June 2022 [Read more...]
M18 Meeting, February 2022
Thursday and Friday, the 10th 11th of February 2022 [Read more...]
Stakeholders Questionnaire (draft)
Wednesday, the 9th of February 2022 Read more
WP Leaders Meeting on 18 January 2022
Tuesday, the 18th of January 2022 Read more
WP Leaders Meeting on 09 December 2021
Thursday, the 9th of December 2021 Read more
Report on the fabrication of NW array artefacts delivered from TUBS, INRiM and CNRS, 29 November 2021
Monday, the 29th of November 2021 Read more
VAMAS TWA 2 meeting, 25 November 2021
Thursday, the 25th of November 2021 Read more
IEC TC113 meeting, 9 November 2021
Tuesday, the 9th of November 2021 Read more
WP Leaders Meeting 2021/10/22
Friday, the 22nd of October 2021 Read more
NanoInnovation 2021, Rome, Italy
Tuesday, the 21st of September 2021 Read more
MNE 2021 - Micro and Nano Engineering, Turin, Italy
Monday, the 20th of September 2021 Read more
CIM 2021 - International Metrology Congress, Lyon, France, & Nanowires Stakeholder Meeting
Tuesday, the 9th of September 2021 Read more
Nanomanipulation webinar 2021/08/03
Tuesday, the 3rd of August 2021 Read more
WP Leaders Meeting 2021/07/22
Thursday, the 22nd of July 2021 Read more
WP1 and WP4 Nanowires samples from INRiM delivered to VSL, DFM, PTB, LNE and GUM 2021/06/10
Thursday, the 10th of June 2021 Read more
19ENG05 M9 meeting and reporting 2021/05/10-11
Monday, the 10th and Tuesday, the 11th of May 2021 Read more
19ENG05 WP Leaders Web-meeting 2021/04/12
Monday, the 12th of April 2021 Read more
19ENG05 WP1 Web-meeting 2021/04/07
Wednesday, the 7th of April 2021: an update on the Silicon Nanowires fabrication from TU Braunchweig and from INRiM has been reported. Read more
19ENG05 WP4 Web-meeting 2021/03/01
Wednesday, the 1st of March 2021. Read more
Project overview
Energy harvesting from renewable sources (solar, heat and movement) is a prominent solution to create small amounts of electrical energy in areas of difficult access, and energy harvesting devices have much potential to address our world energy problems.
Nanowire (NW) based energy harvesting systems have achieved encouraging progress, but due to nanometre (nm) dimensions of the wires and large size (square meter) of the devices, they also bring challenges for testing and characterisation.
12 European Countries and Universities
17 Nanotechnology Laboratories
Support Europe's Future Demands for Renewable Energy
This project aims to develop reliable and high throughput metrology for the quality control of NW energy harvesting systems. Read more