Micropatterning: Ultrafast Large‐Area Micropattern Generation in Nonabsorbing Polymer Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Diffraction (Small 6/2011)

An ultrafast, parallel, and beyond‐the‐master micropatterning technique for ultrathin (30?400 nm) nonabsorbing polymer films by diffraction of laser light through a 2D periodic aperture is reported. The redistribution of laser energy absorbed by the substrate causes self‐organization of polymer thin films in the form of wrinklelike surface relief structures caused by localized melting and freezing of the thin film. Unlike conventional laser ablation and laser writing processes, low laser fluence is employed to only passively swell the polymer as a pre‐ablative process without loss of material, and without absorption/reaction with incident radiation. Self‐organization in the thin polymer film, aided by the diffraction pattern, produces microstructures made up of thin raised lines. These regular microstructures have far more complex morphologies than the mask geometry and very narrow line widths that can be an order of magnitude smaller than the openings in the mask. The microstructure morphology is easily modulated by changing the film thickness, aperture size, and geometry, and by changing the diffraction pattern.     

钇稳定氧化锆薄膜的制备及其微细加工

以甲醇为溶剂,硝酸氧锆、硝酸钇为前驱物,采用溶胶-凝胶方法,通过引入化学修饰剂乙酰丙酮(AcAcH),使乙酰丙酮和锆离子形成螯合物,得到了具有紫外光感光性的溶胶及其凝胶薄膜,提出了YSZ薄膜的微细图形加工新方法.UV-Vis.分光光度计的紫外光谱测试结果表明:乙酰丙酮与锆离子形成的螯合物在室温、可见光、大气环境下,可以存在于凝胶薄膜中,并具有较好的热稳定性和光化学稳定性,其紫外光谱的特征吸收峰大约在310nm附近;325nm紫外激光光源照射凝胶薄膜,能破坏、分解凝胶薄膜中的这种螯合物结构,使凝胶薄膜的物理化学性质发生变化,实验发现,经过紫外激光照射的凝胶薄膜在适当的有机溶剂(如甲醇等)中的溶解度和溶解速度显著降低,利用这一特性,采用325nm紫外激光通过掩膜照射凝胶薄膜,并在适当的有机溶剂中溶洗掉未受照射的区域,经过800℃,20min热处理,得到了具有微细图形的YSZ薄膜,XRD测试表明该薄膜相结构为立方相.     

Nanostructured Thin Films via Self‐Assembly of Block Copolymers

Thin films of incompatible block copolymers self‐assemble into highly regular supramolecular structures with characteristic dimensions in the 10–100 nm regime. There is increasing interest in controlling the resulting structures and utilizing them, for instance in the area of nanotechnology. So far, research has concentrated mainly on exploiting the melt structure of diblock copolymers. Recent work on block copolymer solutions and more complex co‐ and terpolymer architectures has revealed a rich variety of novel thin‐film structures, some of which exhibit high complexity and order. In addition, by use of mean field dynamic density functional theory along with well‐controlled experiments, the fundamentals of thin film structure formation have been elucidated. We highlight some aspects of these studies and point to future directions in this lively field of materials science.