Automatic hammering of nano-patterns on special polymer film by using a vibrating AFM tip
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Automatic hammering of nano-patterns on special polymer film by using a vibrating AFM tip
Complicated nano-patterns with linewidth less than 18 nm can be automatically hammered by using atomic force microscopy (AFM) tip in tapping mode with high speed. In this study, the special sample was thin poly(styrene-ethylene/butylenes-styrene) (SEBS) block copolymer film with hexagonal spherical microstructures. An ordinary silicon tip was used as a nano-hammer, and the entire hammering proc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nanoscale Research Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1556-276X
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276x-7-456