Imprinted polymer stamps for UV-NIL

Tomi Haatainen (Corresponding Author), Tapio Mäkelä, Jouni Ahopelto, Y. Kawaguchi

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    Abstract

    Thermal step and stamp nanoimprint lithography (SSIL) offers an alternative to fabricate transparent polymer stamps for UV-imprinting. The fabrication process does not require any other subsequent steps, e.g. dry etching or anti adhesive coating. In this work, we have manufactured UV-stamp by combining patterns of two different silicon masters. The patterns of the silicon masters were transferred into resin coated quartz plate by sequential imprinting. The first master consisted gratings with 50 nm features and the second master consisted dot arrays of 350 nm diameter features. The novel idea is the ability to create a large UV-stamp using a combination of small masters. Thus fabricated UV-stamps were used for demonstrating step and repeat UV-imprinting. The quality of the UV-stamps and imprints were analyzed by AFM. High fidelity patterns were achieved in respect to patterns in the original silicon master.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)2293-2296
    Number of pages4
    JournalMicroelectronic Engineering
    Volume86
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Keywords

    • Nanoimprinting
    • Step and stamp
    • UV-NIL

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