Molecular transfer printing block copolymers

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 599-609

  Ji, Shengxiang ^a   Liu, Chi Chun ^a   Liu, Guoliang ^a   Nealey, Paul F ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Block copolymer lithography; Directed assembly; Nanopatterning; Thin films; Transfer printing

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMER FILMS; BLOCK COPOLYMER LITHOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALITY; CHEMICAL PATTERN; DIBLOCK CO-POLYMER FILMS; DIRECTED ASSEMBLY; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; FILM SURFACES; FUNCTIONALIZED; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HOMOPOLYMERS; MOLECULAR TRANSFER; NANO DOMAIN; NANO SCALE; NANOPATTERNING; PARALLEL TECHNIQUES; PATTERNING PROCESS; SELF-ASSEMBLED DOMAINS; SOFT-LITHOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES; TRANSFER PATTERNS; TRANSFER PRINTING;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CRYSTALS; INK; LITHOGRAPHY; PRINTING; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

PLASTIC PRODUCTS;

INK; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRINTING;

INK; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; PRINTING;

EID: 77649163356     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901342j     Document Type: Conference Paper

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