Electrohydrodynamic Lithography of Functional Soft Materials for Advanced Applications

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Abstract

The control of patterns on sub-micrometre length scales is of considerable technological interest, and is especially relevant for tailoring the properties of novel functional materials. A variety of bottom-up and top-down techniques for patterning polymers have emerged in the past decade. The growing demand for better performance, reduced energy consumption, high-throughput and higher levels of complexity and integration raise the need for alternative technologies capable of generation or reproduction of patterns below the sub-100 nm. Successful cost-effective patterning processes are needed to enable straightforward high-fidelity patterning in a controlled manner on multiple-scales which will also be suitable for a broad range of materials. Development of such methods is essential for the successful future large-scale fabrication of advanced functional technologically appealing down-scaled devices. Here advances in the use of electric fields on a range of soft materials to generate complex patterns from thin films by exploiting surface instabilities are reviewed, that demonstrate a complementary and an elegant lithographic technique, limits of which are yet to be reached.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPolymer Surfaces in Motion
Subtitle of host publicationUnconventional Patterning Methods
EditorsJuan Rodríguez-Hernández, Carlos Drummond
PublisherSpringer
Pages163–182
ISBN (Electronic)9783319174310
ISBN (Print)9783319174303, 9783319355788
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2015

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