Chemical and Biomolecular Research Papers -- Faculty Authors Series
Ravi Saraf Publications
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
February 2003
Abstract
The possibility of using self-assembled films of block polymers as templates to fabricate nanoscale structures for devices has attracted great attention towards this class of material. Self-assembly of a block copolymer can be directed by using an electric field to orient features (i.e., ~10-nm-diam cylinders) parallel to the electric field, making the material more attractive as a nanoscale lithography mask. In this letter we describe an approach to influence the electric field orientation phenomena by interfacial effects. As a result, the 15-nm-diam polystyrene cylinders of the polystyrene–polyisoprene–polystyrene triblock copolymer orient perpendicular to the electric field. The described approach along with the previous method can produce a directed self-assembly to fabricate complex nanoscale structures with orthogonally oriented nanoscale width lines.
Comments
Published by American Institute of Physics. Appl. Phys. Lett. Vol. 82, No. 6, 10 February 2003. © 2003 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. http://apl.aip.org/.