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Self-assembly of Si-containing block copolymers for next-generation nanofabrication

  • Jeong, Yeon-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.22-23
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    • 2011
  • As device dimensions shrink, it is increasingly important to develop fabrication methods that can create sub-15 nm features of regular or arbitrary geometry in a rapid, parallel, and efficient process. This talk will discuss approaches based on self-assembling hybrid polymers containing Si. The thin films of those materials systems can generate well-ordered periodic arrays of dots or lines. For achieving, long-range ordering, it is helpful to use lithographically-defined templates, which are in general much larger than the length-scale of self-assembled nanostructures. For example, the self-assembly of polymer nanostructures can easily be templated using an array of nanoscale topographical elements that act as guiding templates or surrogates for one of two microdomains. The solvent-vapor-induced tunability of pattern dimension and morphology will be discussed as well. Those material systems can excellently serve for high-precision self-assembly that can provide good resolution, reliability, and controllability and be considered as an option for a future nanomanufacturing technology.

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Development of the Nanofluidic Filter and Nanopore Micromixer Using Self-Assembly of Nano-Spheres and Surface Tension (나노구체의 자기조립 성질과 표면장력을 이용한 나노유체필터 및 나노포어 마이크로믹서)

  • Seo, Young-Ho;Choi, Doo-Sun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.31 no.9
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    • pp.910-914
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    • 2007
  • We present a simple and an inexpensive method for the fabrication of a nano-fluidic filter and a nano-pore micromixer using self-assembly of nano-spheres and surface tension. Colloid-plug was formed by surface tension of liquid in a microchannel to fabricate nanofluidic filter. When colloid is evaporated, nano-spheres in a colloid are orderly stacked by a capillary force. Orderly stacked nano-spheres form 3-D nano-mesh which can be used as a mesh structure of a fluidic filter. We used silica nano-sphere whose diameter is $567{\pm}85nm$, and silicon micro-channel of $50{\mu}m$-diameter. Fabricated nano-fluidic filter in a micro-channel has median pore diameter of 158nm which was in agreement with expected diameter of the nano-pore of $128{\pm}19nm$. A nano-pore micromixer consists of $200\;{\mu}m-wide,\;100\;{\mu}m-deep$ micro-channel and self-assembled nano-spheres. In the nano-pore micromixer, two different fluids had no sooner met together than two fluids begin to mix at wide region. From the experimental study, we completely apply self-assembly of nano-spheres to nano-fluidic devices.

Ordered Hybrid Nanomaterials from Self-Assembled Polymeric Building Blocks

  • Kim, Dong-Ha
    • Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.309-309
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    • 2006
  • Latest developments on hybrid nanostructured materials fabricated by applying self-assembly strategies on organic/inorganic nanotemplates are discussed. Within this frame, numerous functional nanomaterials including arrays of composite metal/semiconductor nanoparticles, planar waveguides and functional multilayer thin films are generated using self-assembled polymers as templates or building blocks. In particular, surface plasmon resonance based optical sensing is employed to investigate nanofabrication processes occurring in nanoscale dimention. We also suggest unprecedented pathways to hybrid supramolecular multilayer nanoarchitectures in 1D or 2D geometry via layer-by-layer self-assembly.

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Epitaxial Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Thin Film for Nanofabrication

  • Kim, Sang-Ouk
    • Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.293-293
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    • 2006
  • Self-assembled nanostructures of block copolymer thin films have gathered significant attention due to their potential applications as templates for nanofabrication. However the lack of a robust strategy to control the structure formation in thin film geometries has been considered a major obstacle for the practical application. In this presentation 'epitaxial self-assembly' will be introduced as a successful strategy to control the self-assembled nanostructure of block copolymer. Chemically patterned surfaces prepared by advanced lithographic techniques successfully registered nanodomains in block copolymer thin film without any single defect over an arbitrarily large area.

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Colloidal Self-Assembly Route to Flexible Cholesteric LCDs and Other High-Efficiency Displays

  • Chari, Krishnan
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.63-66
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    • 2006
  • We describe a unique process based on colloidal self-assembly that results in a uniform (almost hexagonally close-packed) layer of liquid crystal domains over large areas leading to single-substrate cholesteric LCDs with low switching voltages, excellent contrast, and high brightness. Extension to guest-host LCDs is also discussed.

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