Force microscopy enables a variety of approaches to manipulate and/or modify surfaces.
Few of those methods have evolved into advanced probe-based lithographies. Oxidation …

Directed self-assembly of block copolymers is a bottom-up approach to nanofabrication that
has attracted high interest in recent years due to its inherent simplicity, high throughput, low …

The understanding of the dynamics of a glass above its devitrification temperature remains
incomplete. Here, we build a spatio-temporal map of the relaxation dynamics of a highly …

Future-oriented material fabrication technologies would aim to reproduce features
characteristic to the natural materials into the synthetic ones. Various bio-mimicking …

The mechanical properties of several types of block copolymer (BCP) thin films have been
investigated using PeakForce quantitative nanomechanical mapping. The samples …

There is an astonishing number of optoelectronic, photonic, biological, sensing, or storage
media devices, just to name a few, that rely on a variety of extraordinary periodic surface …

Thermal scanning probe lithography (t-SPL) is applied to the fabrication of chemical guiding
patterns for directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers (BCP). The two key steps of …

The use of photo-induced copper-mediated radical polymerization (photoCMP) to
synthesize mixed acrylate/methacrylate (methyl acrylate, MA and methyl methacrylate, MMA) …

Time resolution is one of the most severe limitations of scanning probe microscopies
(SPMs), since the typical image acquisition times are in the order of several seconds or even …

In this paper, we investigate the directed self-assembly of block copolymers in topographical
guiding patterns with feature sizes in the range of the block copolymer half-pitch. In …