Electric Field Gradient at Nanostructured Insulating Electrode Surface

Thomas Burgess 1, Cierra Harris 1 and George Chumanov 1

Department of Chemistry, Clemson University

Nanostructured dielectric electrodes (NSDE) have been fabricated capable of producing a nonuniform electric field. The field gradient was characterized and the field intensity was estimated using electrostatic force microscopy (EFM). NSDE will be used to direct the dielectrophoretic assembly of nanoparticles into nanoclusters at the NSDE surface in future experiments.