Temperature-dependence of ink transport during thermal dip-pen nanolithography Academic Article

abstract

• We investigate the control of tip temperature on feature size during dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) of mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHA) on Au. Heated atomic force microscopy (AFM) probes operated between 25 C and 50 C wrote nanostructures of MHA for various dwell times and tip speeds. The feature size exhibited an exponential dependence on tip temperature with an apparent activation barrier of 165 kJ/mol. Analysis of the ink transfer process shows that, while 1/3 of the barrier is from ink dissolution into the meniscus, the rest reflects the barrier to adsorption onto the growing feature, a process that has been ignored in previous DPN models. 2011 American Institute of Physics.

authors

• Felts, Jonathan

published proceedings

• APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

altmetric score

• 9

author list (cited authors)

• Chung, S., Felts, J. R., Wang, D., King, W. P., & De Yoreo, J. J.

citation count

• 23

complete list of authors

• Chung, Sungwook||Felts, Jonathan R||Wang, Debin||King, William P||De Yoreo, James J

publication date

• January 2011

publisher

• AIP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Applied Physics Letters  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1063/1.3657777

start page

• 193101

end page

• 193101

volume

• 99

issue

• 19

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3657777