Parallel dip-pen nanolithography with arrays of individually addressable cantilevers
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چکیده
In dip-pen nanolithography ~DPN!, nanoscale chemical patterns are created by directly transferring chemical molecules from the tip of an atomic force microscope probe to a surface. We report the development of a thermally actuated probe array for DPN applications. The array consists of ten thermal bimorph actuated probes, each 300 mm long, with a lateral spacing of 100 mm. The probes are actuated by passing dc current through a heater embedded in the probe base. The array is demonstrated by using it to simultaneously write ten different octadecanethiol patterns on a gold surface. © 2004 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1644317#
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