Scanning probe lithography tips with spring-on-tip designs: Analysis, fabrication, and testing Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This letter reports a special tip design for probes used in scanning probe lithography applications. The sidewalls of the pyramidal tip located at the distal end of a cantilever probe are modified to contain folded spring structures to reduce the overall force constant of the scanning probe. The spring structure is generated using focused ion beam milling method. We have conducted finite element simulation of the force constants of such folded springs under various geometries. We also demonstrated sub-100nm scanning probe lithography using a modified spring tip in the dip pen nanolithography writing mode.

published proceedings

  • Applied Physics Letters

author list (cited authors)

  • Wang, X., Vincent, L., Bullen, D., Zou, J., & Liu, C.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Wang, Xuefeng||Vincent, Loren||Bullen, David||Zou, Jun||Liu, Chang

publication date

  • August 2005