Microdomain patterns from directional eutectic solidification and epitaxy

Claudio De Rosa, Cheolmin Park, Edwin L. Thomas () and Bernard Lotz
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Claudio De Rosa: Universita’ di Napoli
Cheolmin Park: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edwin L. Thomas: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bernard Lotz: Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolecules

Nature, 2000, vol. 405, issue 6785, 433-437

Abstract: Abstract Creating a regular surface pattern on the nanometre scale is important for many technological applications, such as the periodic arrays constructed by optical microlithography that are used as separation media in electrophoresis1, and island structures used for high-density magnetic recording devices2. Block copolymer patterns can also be used for lithography on length scales below 30 nanometres (refs 3,4,5). But for such polymers to prove useful for thin-film technologies, chemically patterned surfaces need to be made substantially defect-free over large areas, and with tailored domain orientation and periodicity. So far, control over domain orientation has been achieved by several routes6,7,8,9, using electric fields, temperature gradients, patterned substrates and neutral confining surfaces. Here we describe an extremely fast process that leads the formation of two-dimensional periodic thin films having large area and uniform thickness, and which possess vertically aligned cylindrical domains each containing precisely one crystalline lamella. The process involves rapid solidification of a semicrystalline block copolymer from a crystallizable solvent between glass substrates using directional solidification and epitaxy. The film is both chemically and structurally periodic, thereby providing new opportunities for more selective and versatile nanopatterned surfaces.

Date: 2000
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