Nanoimprint lithography: methods and material requirements

LJ Guo - Advanced materials, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a nonconventional lithographic technique for high‐
throughput patterning of polymer nanostructures at great precision and at low costs. Unlike …

Cyclic olefin polymers: emerging materials for lab-on-a-chip applications

PS Nunes, PD Ohlsson, O Ordeig, JP Kutter - Microfluidics and …, 2010 - Springer
Cyclic olefin polymers (COPs) are increasingly popular as substrate material for
microfluidics. This is due to their promising properties, such as high chemical resistance, low …

Nanoimprint lithography: An old story in modern times? A review

H Schift - Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a high throughput, high-resolution parallel patterning
method in which a surface pattern of a stamp is replicated into a material by mechanical …

Battery-free, lightweight, injectable microsystem for in vivo wireless pharmacology and optogenetics

Y Zhang, DC Castro, Y Han, Y Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Pharmacology and optogenetics are widely used in neuroscience research to study the
central and peripheral nervous systems. While both approaches allow for sophisticated …

Rapid, cost-efficient fabrication of microfluidic reactors in thermoplastic polymers by combining photolithography and hot embossing

J Greener, W Li, J Ren, D Voicu, V Pakharenko… - Lab on a Chip, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a cost-efficient and easy to implement process for fabricating microfluidic reactors
in thermoplastic materials. The method includes (i) the fabrication of an imprint template …

Printed photonic elements: nanoimprinting and beyond

C Zhang, H Subbaraman, Q Li, Z Pan, JG Ok… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In order to manufacture large-scale photonic devices of various dimensions at a low cost, a
number of patterning techniques have been developed. Nanoimprint lithography is among …

Hard top soft bottom microfluidic devices for cell culture and chemical analysis

G Mehta, J Lee, W Cha, YC Tung… - Analytical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We report fabrication and characterization of microfluidic devices made of thermoplastic and
elastomeric polymers. These hard− soft hybrid material devices are motivated by the …

Surface modification of thermoplastics—towards the plastic biochip for high throughput screening devices

GA Diaz-Quijada, R Peytavi, A Nantel, E Roy… - Lab on a Chip, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Microarrays have become one of the most convenient tools for high throughput screening,
supporting major advances in genomics and proteomics. Other important applications can …

Pattern replication with intermediate stamp

B Heidari, A Löfstrand, E Bolmsjö, E Theander… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
The invention relates to a two-step process for transferring a pattern from a template (1) to a
target surface of a substrate, by creating an intermediate flexible polymer stamp (5) from the …

Stretching DNA in polymer nanochannels fabricated by thermal imprint in PMMA

LH Thamdrup, A Klukowska, A Kristensen - Nanotechnology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results regarding the fast and inexpensive fabrication of polymer biochips for
investigating the statics and dynamics of DNA confined in nanochannels. The biochips have …