3D nanofabrication by volumetric deposition and controlled shrinkage of patterned scaffolds
Lithographic nanofabrication is often limited to successive fabrication of two-dimensional (2D) layers. We present a strategy for the direct assembly of 3D nanomaterials consisting of metals, semiconductors, and biomolecules arranged in virtually any 3D geometry. We used hydrogels as scaffolds for v...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
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Summary: | Lithographic nanofabrication is often limited to successive fabrication of two-dimensional (2D) layers. We present a strategy for the direct assembly of 3D nanomaterials consisting of metals, semiconductors, and biomolecules arranged in virtually any 3D geometry. We used hydrogels as scaffolds for volumetric deposition of materials at defined points in space. We then optically patterned these scaffolds in three dimensions, attached one or more functional materials, and then shrank and dehydrated them in a controlled way to achieve nanoscale feature sizes in a solid substrate. We demonstrate that our process, Implosion Fabrication (ImpFab), can directly write highly conductive, 3D silver nanostructures within an acrylic scaffold via volumetric silver deposition. Using ImpFab, we achieve resolutions in the tens of nanometers and complex, non-self-supporting 3D geometries of interest for optical metamaterials. ©2017 ONR (no. N00014-17-1-2977) NIH (no. 1R01EB024261) NIH (no. 1U01MH106011) NIH Director's Pioneer Award (no. 1DP1NS087724) NIH (no. 1RM1HG008525) NIH (no. 1R24MH106075) National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (award no. 1122374) |
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