Evaluation of new materials for plasmonic imaging lithography at 476 nm using near field scanning optical microscopy

Backer, Scott A. and Suez, Itai and Fresco, Zachary M. and Fréchet, Jean M. J. and Conway, Josh A. and Vedantam, Shantha and Lee, Hyojune and Yablonovitch, Eli. (2007) Evaluation of new materials for plasmonic imaging lithography at 476 nm using near field scanning optical microscopy. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, 25 (4). pp. 1336-1339. ISSN 10711023

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Abstract

A new resist formulation was successfully patterned using near field optical microscopy in order to simulate the conditions prevailing in silver based plasmonic imaging tools. Radiation at 476 nm was transmitted through a near field scanning optical microscopy fiber probe tip to cross-link a film of poly(4-methacrylmethyl styrene) via polymerization of pendant methacryloyl groups using camphorquinone and dimethyl aniline as an initiating system. Patterns were generated by scanning at several speeds in order to moderate the dose while maintaining a constant probe height of about 5 nm above the sample through shear force feedback. After development, lines corresponding to the exposed regions were observed. At a scanning speed of 4 µm/s, the observed pattern has a full width at half maximum of 275 nm and a height of ~25 nm.

Item Type: Article
InterNano Taxonomy: Nanoscale Objects and Nanostructured Materials > Nanocomposites > Polymeric
Nanomanufacturing Processes > Nanopatterning/Lithography
Collections: Nanomanufacturing Research Collection > Nanomanufacturing Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers > Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing
Depositing User: Moureen Kemei
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2010 21:31
Last Modified: 26 Sep 2014 21:11
URI: http://eprints.internano.org/id/eprint/394

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