Parallel dip-pen nanolithography with arrays of individually addressable cantilevers Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 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 m long, with a lateral spacing of 100 m. 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.

published proceedings

  • Applied Physics Letters

altmetric score

  • 9

author list (cited authors)

  • Bullen, D., Chung, S., Wang, X., Zou, J., Mirkin, C. A., & Liu, C.

citation count

  • 113

complete list of authors

  • Bullen, David||Chung, Sung-Wook||Wang, Xuefeng||Zou, Jun||Mirkin, Chad A||Liu, Chang

publication date

  • February 2004