NANOLITHOGRAPHY

Principle

AFM tip is used as a tool to locally modify the sample surface.

For instance, the tip can be used as a nano-pen to deposit molecules with a nanoscale resolution.

 

 

Applications

Topographic image after déposition

Friction image - Evidence of deposited molecules onto a ultraflat gold surface

 
Contact Mode Intermittent contact Mode Force Measurements Magnetic Measurements Electric and Resistance Measurements Nanolithography

 

Laboratoire de Physique de l'Etat Condensé - Institut de Recherche en Ingénierie Moléculaire et Matériaux Fonctionnels
Faculté du Maine - Université du Maine - Avenue Olivier Messiaen
72085 Le Mans cedex 09, France

2010