Directional photofluidization lithography for nanoarchitectures with controlled shapes and sizes

Seungwoo Lee, Jonghwa Shin, Yong Hee Lee, Shanhui Fan, Jung Ki Park

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    Abstract

    Highly ordered metallic nanostructures have attracted an increasing interest in nanoscale electronics, photonics, and spectroscopic imaging. However, methods typically used for fabricating metallic nanostructures, such as direct writing and templatebased nanolithography, have low throughput and are, moreover, limited to specific fabricated shapes such as holes, lines, and prisms, respectively. Herein, we demonstrate directional photofluidization lithography (DPL) as a new method to address the aforementioned problems of current nanolithography. The key idea of DPL is the use of photoreconfigurable polymer arrays to be molded in metallic nanostructures instead of conventional colloids or cross-linked polymer arrays. The photoreconfiguration of polymers by directional photofluidization allows unprecedented control over the sizes and shapes of metallic nanostructures. Besides the capability for precise control of structural features, DPL ensures scalable, parallel, and cost-effective processing, highly compatible with high-throughput fabrication. Therefore, DPL can expand not only the potential for specific metallic nanostructure applications but also large-scale innovative nanolithography.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)296-304
    Number of pages9
    JournalNano Letters
    Volume10
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010 Jan 13

    Keywords

    • Surface plasmon resonance, metallic nanostructures, azopolymer, directional photofluidizatior

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Bioengineering
    • General Chemistry
    • General Materials Science
    • Condensed Matter Physics
    • Mechanical Engineering

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