'Force-Feedback' Leveling of Massively Parallel Arrays in Polymer Pen Lithography

摘要

Polymer pen lithography is a recently developed molecular printing technique which can produce features with diameters ranging from 80 nm to > 10 mu m in a single writing step using massively parallel (> 10(7) pens) arrays of pyramidal, elastorneric pens. Leveling these pen arrays with respect to the surface to produce uniform features over large areas remains a considerable challenge. Here, we describe a new method for leveling the pen arrays chat utilizes the force between the pen arrays and the surface to achieve leveling with a tilt of less than 0.004 degrees, thereby producing features that vary by only 50 nm over 1 cm.