Fabrication of nano/micro dual-periodic structures by multi-beam evanescent wave interference lithography using...

We propose an effective method for fabricating dual-periodic structures using the combination of multi-beam interference lithography and evanescent wave exposure. Four-beam evanescent wave interference lithography (EWIL) is used as a prototype to demonstrate the fabrication feasibility of one-dimensional (1D) micro-grating structures covered with nanodots and two-dimensional microdot structures filled with subwavelength fringes by designing reciprocal lattice vectors of interference fringes. We experimentally fabricated 1D nano-/micro-grating structures with periods of 140 nm and 12.5 µm and microdots filled with subwavelength gratings of 450 nm period by four-beam EWIL. These structures are applicable to superlattice photonic crystals and subwavelength structured surfaces.