Fabrication of periodic nanoparticle clusters using a soft lithographic template

Soft lithographic methods for nano-fabrication

Soft l i thography is a low-cost, non-photolithographic strategy for carrying out micloand nano-fabrication. This unconventional approach consists oftechniques based on self-assembly and replica moiding oforganic molecules and polyneric marerialsFour such techniques, microcontact printing (ICP). replica molding. micromolding in capil laries (MIMIC), and microtransfer molding (ITM ). have been d...

Soft lithographic fabrication of high Q polymer microcavity arrays.

As new synthetic, low-loss polymers are developed, polymer optical cavities are experiencing a revolution, in both fabrication design and functionality. Recently, a fabrication technique was developed that enabled planar arrays of polymeric resonators to achieve cavity Q factors greater than 1 million. In the present letter, this molding technique is expanded to fabricate resonators from polyme...

Soft Lithographic Fabrication of Micro Optic and Guided Wave Devices

Fabrication of mesoporous polymer using soft template method.

Mesoporous polymer materials were fabricated from micelle/polymer precursors prepared by the micelle template method in reverse microemulsion systems and the pore size could be tuned by varying the type and concentration of surfactant.

Fabrication of ZnS nanoparticle chains on a protein template.

In the present study, we have exploited the properties of a fibrillar protein for the template synthesis of zinc sulfide (ZnS) nanoparticle chains. The diameter of the ZnS nanoparticle chains was tuned in range of ~30 to ~165 nm by varying the process variables. The nanoparticle chains were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy, UV-Visible spectroscopy, transmission elect...