A cantilever-free approach to dot-matrix nanoprinting

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 12921-12924

  Brown, Keith A ^a,b   Eichelsdoerfer, Daniel J ^a,b   Shim, Wooyoung ^a,b   Rasin, Boris ^a,b   Radha, Boya ^a,b   Liao, Xing ^a,b   Schmucker, Abrin L ^a,b   Liu, Guoliang ^a,b   Mirkin, Chad A ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanofabrication; Polymer pen lithography; Soft microelectromechanical systems; Thermal actuation

Indexed keywords

DIMETICONE; ELASTOMER;

ARTICLE; FILM; HEATING; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULE; NANOANALYSIS; NANOENGINEERING; NANOFABRICATION; NANOPRINTING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING PROBE LITHOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMOSTABILITY; THICKNESS;

NANOFABRICATION; POLYMER PEN LITHOGRAPHY; SOFT MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; THERMAL ACTUATION;

ALGORITHMS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84881406604     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311994110     Document Type: Article

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