Method of making a molecule-surface interface

• US 7,176,146 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2003
• Issued: 02/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Rice University
• Original Assignee: Rice University
• Inventors: Tour, James M., Stewart, Michael P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Thanh
• Application Number:
  US10/356,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20040023479A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,471 Days
• Field of Search: 438/765, 438/767, 438/769, 438/780, 438/99
• US Class Current: 438/765
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/02118 carbon based polymeric organic or inorganic material, e.g. polyimides, poly cyclobutene or PVC polymers per se C08G, photoresist per se G03F
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/02282 liquid deposition, e.g. spin-coating, sol-gel techniques, spray coating
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/288 from a liquid, e.g. electrolytic deposition
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/312 Organic layers, e.g. photoresist H01L21/3105, H01L21/32 take precedence; photoresists per se G03C
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/3205 Deposition of non-insulating-, e.g. conductive- or resistive-, layers on insulating layers; After-treatment of these layers manufacture of electrodes H01L21/28
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31663 As siloxane, silicone or silane

Abstract

This invention is generally related to a method of making a molecule-surface interface comprising at least one surface comprising at least one material and at least one organic group wherein the organic group is adjoined to the surface and the method comprises contacting at least one organic group precursor with at least one surface wherein the organic group precursor is capable of reacting with the surface in a manner sufficient to adjoin the organic group and the surface.

Claims

1. A method of making a molecule-surface interface comprising

at least one hydride-passivated surface comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of <

100>

-, <

111>

- and <

110>

-silicon; and

at least one conjugated organic group adjoined to the surface;

wherein the method comprises

contacting at least one organic group precursor selected from the group consisting

 

of (IV0, (V) and (VI)

 

with the surface;

wherein (IV), (V) and (VI) are capable of reacting with the surface in a manner sufficient to bond the organic group and the surface.