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Extreme-Pressure Imprint Lithography for Heat and Ultraviolet-Free Direct Patterning of Rigid Nanoscale Features

Journal

ACS NANO
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 10464-10471

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c02896

Keywords

nanopatterning; imprint lithography; nanostructure; step-and-repeat; extreme-pressure

Funding

  1. National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government (MSIT) [2021R1A2C1004119]
  2. National Research Foundation of Korea [2021R1A2C1004119] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)

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EPIL is an extreme-pressure imprint lithography technique that can produce well-defined multiscale structures on diverse surfaces from 10 nm to 10 mm without the use of precursors, heating, UV exposure, or pattern transfer. Its versatility has been demonstrated through successful applications to various materials such as Ni, Cu, steel, and organics, showing potential for large-area nanofabrication of devices in the future when combined with other nanopatterning technologies.
Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is typically performed by filling up of molds by heated polymers or UV-curable liquid resists, inevitably requiring subsequent pattern-transfer processes. Although direct NIL techniques have been suggested alternatively, they usually require precursors or ink-type resists containing undesired organic components. Here, we demonstrate extreme-pressure imprint lithography (EPIL) that effectively produces well-defined multiscale structures with a wide range from 10 nm to 10 mm on diverse surfaces even including pure or alloy metals without using any precursors, heating, UV exposure, or pattern transfer. In particular, EPIL is accomplished through precise control of room-temperature plastic deformation in nanoscale volumes, which is elucidated by finite element analyses and molecular dynamics simulations. In addition to scalability to macroscopic areas, we confirm the outstanding versatility of EPIL via its successful applications to Ni, Cu, steel, and organics. We expect that the state-of-the-art EPIL process combined with other emerging nanopatterning technologies will be extendable to the future large-area nanofabrication of various devices.

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