Chemical and physical methods of the templated direction of block copolymers
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Nicaise, Samuel M. (Samuel Mospens)![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/78469/834089277-MIT.pdf.jpg?sequence=5&isAllowed=y)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Karl K. Berggren.
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This thesis discusses the investigation of various aspects of templated self-assembly of block copolymer (BCP) thin films for nanofeature fabrication. Two chapters outline the research of a combined physical and chemical templating method with two BCPs. The method was not effective in templating poly(styrene-block-methyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PMMA) BCP because of limited template wettability. The method effectively templated poly(octofluro pentamethacrylate-block-hydroxystyrene) (OFPMA-b-HSM) BCP to fabricate orthogonally-directed lamellar microdomains and nanohole-mesh arrays. Chapter 4 discusses the achievement of a mean overlay accuracy of 52 nm and 0' for two electron-beam-based lithographic features as a result of an investigated overlay process. Lastly, the thesis reports the fabrication of a wide-range of nanofeatures - from two-dimensional and three dimensional nanoholes arrays to elliptical and cylindrical meshes - by the sacrificial-post templating method with poly(styreneblock- dimethylsiloxane) (PS-b-PDMS) BCP.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references.
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2012Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.