InTech. 2011. 198 p.
The term Lithography encompasses a range of contemporary technologies for micro and nano scale fabrication. Originally driven by the evolution of the semiconductor industry, lithography has grown from its optical origins to demonstrate increasingly fine resolution and to permeate fields as diverse as photonics and biology. Today, greater flexibility and affordability are demanded from lithography more than ever before. Diverse needs across many disciplines have produced a multitude of innovative new lithography techniques. This book, which is the final instalment in a series of three, provides a compelling overview of some of the recent advances in lithography, as recounted by the researchers themselves. Topics discussed include nanoimprinting for plasmonic biosensing, soft lithography for neurobiology and stem cell differentiation, colloidal substrates for two-tier self-assembled nanostructures, tuneable diffractive elements using photochromic polymers, and extreme-UV lithography.
Contents
Preface
Nanoimprint Lithographies
Soft UV Nanoimprint Lithography: A Tool to Design Plasmonic Nanobiosensors
Lithographies for Biological Applications
Application of Soft Lithography and Micro-Fabrication on Neurobiology
Toward the Precise Control of Cell Differentiation Processes by Using Micro and Soft Lithography
Self-Assembled Colloidal Substrates for Nanofabrication
Fabrication of Surfaces with Bimodal Roughness Through Polyelectrolyte/Colloid Assembly
Physical Deposition Assisted Colloidal Lithography: A Technique to Ordered Micro/Nanostructured Arrays
Periodic Structures for Diffractive Optics and Surface Wetting
Design of Circular Dammann Grating: Fabrication and Analysis
Fabrication of Binary Diffractive Lens on Optical Films by Electron Beam Lithography
Photocontrolled Reversible Dimensional Changes of Microstructured Photochromic Polymers
Extreme UV Lithography
Approach to EUV Lithography Simulation