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Direct-write thermocapillary dewetting of polymer thin films by a laser-induced thermal gradient
Jonathan P Singer1, Pao-Tai Lin, Steven E Kooi
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|August 22, 2013
Abstract:
A positive-tone 2D direct-write technique that can achieve sub-wavelength patterning by non-linear overlap effects in a conventional polymer system is described. The technique involves relatively inexpensive free-space optics, skips the usual development step, and promises the possibility of a lithographic method that is solvent-free.

