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David E. Hardt.
Chauhan, Karan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
2007-08-03T18:26:25Z
2007-08-03T18:26:25Z
2006
2006
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38293
153313656
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-100).
This dissertation is a documentation of the thought process, its justification and the implementation details that went into prototyping a fully automated system employing Micro Contact Printing, an emerging technique for replication and pattern transfer using soft organic materials, for a nano technology based company in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the summer of 2006. The thesis takes the reader through an extensive literature review of the suite of soft lithography techniques - Near Field Soft Optical Lithography, Replica Molding and Micro contact printing - focused on the critical factors for taking these techniques from research facilities to commercial manufacturing facilities. Micro Contact Printing was studied more extensively than the others. We propose a system level design for viable manufacturing using micro contact printing and also present the implementation details of an automated prototype for the same.
by Karan Chauhan.
M.Eng.
124 leaves
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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