Patent ID: 7595260

Claim:
A method of assembling a plurality of elongated structures on a surface of a substrate, wherein one or more of the elongated structures are at least one of the following: a single crystal, an elongated semiconductor that, at any point along its longitudinal axis, has a largest cross-sectional dimension less than 500 nanometers, and a free-standing semiconductor with at least one portion having a smallest width of less than 500 nanometers, and wherein the method comprises acts of: (A) providing the one or more elongated structures; (B) thereafter, dispersing the one or more elongated structures on a surface of a liquid phase to form a Langmuir-Blodgett film; (C) compressing the Langmuir-Blodgett film; and (D) transferring the compressed Langmuir-Blodgett film onto a surface of the substrate.