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Microcontact printing

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Scalable fabrication of functional nanostructures on stretchable substrates by capillary-assisted particle assembly and adhesion lithography

Henry Shao-Chi Yu

The fabrication of metallic nanostructures on stretchable substrates enables specific applications that exploit the combination of the nano-scale phenomena and the mechanical tunability of the physical dimensions of the nanostructures. Due to the large dif ...

EPFL2022

Cell-Imprint Surface Modification by Contact Photolithography-Based Approaches: Direct-Cell Photolithography and Optical Soft Lithography Using PDMS Cell Imprints

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel

New cell-imprint surface modification techniques based on direct-cell photolithography and optical soft lithography using poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) cell imprints are presented for enhanced cell-based studies. The core concept of engineering materials f ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Fixed DNA Molecule Arrays for High-Throughput Single DNA-Protein Interaction Studies

Vytautas Navikas

The DNA Curtains assay is a recently developed experimental platform for protein-DNA interaction studies at the single-molecule level that is based on anchoring and alignment of DNA fragments. The DNA Curtains so far have been made by using chromium barrie ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

All-printed low-power metal oxide gas sensors on polymeric substrates

Danick Briand, Saleem Khan

This paper presents a novel approach for the fabrication of miniaturized and fully printed metal-oxide (MOX) gas sensors on a polyimide (PI) substrate by using digital manufacturing of the functional layers, namely aerosol jet and inkjet printing technolog ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

High-aspect ratio nanopatterning via combined thermal scanning probe lithography and dry etching

Jürgen Brugger, Yuliya Lisunova

Thermal scanning probe lithography is an emerging nanofabrication technique for rapid prototyping of arbitrary topographies in thermally sensitive resist. This feature, paired to the recent advances in dry plasma etching techniques, allows the fabrication ...

Elsevier2017

Engineered substrates with embedded strain relief for stretchable thin-film electronics

Alessia Romeo

Stretchable electronics are integrated circuitry that can reversibly expand and relax while retaining their functionality. This emerging technology has great potential in unconventional electronic application areas, especially in biomedical sector. To atta ...

EPFL2015

PDMS-based, magnetically actuated variable optical attenuators obtained by soft lithography and inkjet printing technologies

Jürgen Brugger, Victor Javier Cadarso Busto

This paper reports and compares the implementation of magnetic variable optical attenuators (M-VOA) by two fabrication strategies. In the first case, a two-layer structure containing a non-doped polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer on a magnetic PDMS (M-PDMS) ...

Elsevier2014

Resistless Fabrication of Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL) Stamps Using Nano-Stencil Lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Andreea Veronica Savu, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Katrin Sidler Arnet, Cristina Martin Olmos

In order to keep up with the advances in nano-fabrication, alternative, cost-efficient lithography techniques need to be implemented. Two of the most promising are nanoimprint lithography (NIL) and stencil lithography. We explore here the possibility of fa ...

MDPI2013

Biomimetic soft lithography on curved nanostructured surfaces

Jürgen Brugger, Victor Javier Cadarso Busto, Valentin Flauraud, Thomas Kiefer, Vaida Auzelyte

In this paper a nano-molding process using a nature-created master is demonstrated. The eye of night moth Agotis exclamationis having 100 nm-scale structures on a curved surface is used as biomimetic master mold from which nanostructures are replicated ont ...

Elsevier2012

All-stencil transistor fabrication on 3D silicon substrates

Jürgen Brugger, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Andreea Veronica Savu, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Peter Vettiger, Katrin Sidler Arnet, Cyrille Hibert, Cristina Martin Olmos, Philippe Langlet

The standard lithographic techniques to fabricate electronic components involve the use of polymers, baking steps and chemicals. This typically restricts their application to flat substrates made up of standard materials. Stencil lithography has been propo ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Nanoporous SiN membranes patterned by wafer-scale nanosphere lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Andreea Veronica Savu, Oscar Vazquez Mena

Nanoporous SiN membranes are interesting for a number of applications, e.g. stenciling, filtration, or tissue engineering [1-3]. The patterning of the pores requires a high resolution lithographic tool. Focused ion beam milling or e-beam lithography fulfil ...

2010

Silicon nanowire AFM tips grown on released scanning probe cantilevers from stencil-deposited catalysts

Jürgen Brugger, Andreea Veronica Savu

We present a parallel, full wafer technique for deposition of catalyst on released scanning probe bodies for the growth of individual high aspect-ratio Si nanowire tips. 1-D probes are necessary for imaging high aspect-ratio nano-patterns, such as deep and ...

2010

Phototocatalytic Lithography of Poly(propylene sulfide) Block Copolymers: Toward High-Throughput Nanolithography for Biomolecular Arraying Applications

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

Photocatalytic lithography (PCL) is an inexpensive, fast, and robust method of oxidizing surface chemical moieties to produce patterned substrates. This technique has utility in basic biological research as well as various biochip applications. We report o ...

2009

Metal and metaloxide nanostructures on and in plant viruses

Sinan Balci

Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) is composed of 2130 identical coat protein subunits following the right-handed helix of an accompanying RNA strand to produce a 300 nm hollow cylinder with an outer diameter of 18 nm and a 4 nm wide central channel. In this work, ...

EPFL2006

Self-assembled nanostructures prepared by colloidal chemistry

Frédéric Juillerat

The use of nanomaterials has been shown to be promising in potential applications such as magnetic storage devices, nano-optical devices and sensors, amongst others. Such applications require the disposition of nanoparticles, of a wide variety of materials ...

EPFL2006