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Revision as of 16:27, 20 August 2018
Huan Hu
ZJU-UIUC Joint Institute, International Campus, Zhejiang University, Haining, Zhejiang 314400, China.
College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China
Contents
1 Introduction
Nanotechnology is revolutionizing many crucial technologies in our society such as faster and smaller transistors for more powerful circuits, faster and lower-cost DNA sequencing, early disease diagnosis, higher-efficiency energy conversion, and storage, etc. All these fantastic technologies rely upon the capability of fabricating these nanostructures, nano-devices, and nano-systems. For example, semiconductor manufacturing is powered by high-volume processing lithography method using light with smaller and smaller wavelength to produce billions of transistors. This type of lithography technology also demands accompanying technology for flexible low-volume production, mask fabrication and prototyping of the next-generation devices. The dominant mask production is to use the electron-beam lithography. In parallel to the beam-based nanofabrication technology, tip-based nanofabrication (TBN) technology is also receiving renewed interests because of their flexibility of handling novel materials and their capability of reaching atomic scale. Tip-based nanofabrication is a nanofabrication technology that uses a nanoscale tip to interact with a substrate for fabricating nanometer-scale patterns. It can be categorized based on the platform it is implemented: atomic force microscope (AFM) or scanning tunneling microscope (STM).
2 History
Tip-based nanofabrication (TBN) traces back to the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) by two IBM scientists. In STM, a sharp metal tip with several nanometers dimensions approaches the substrate, while monitoring the tunneling constant between the tip and the substrate. The tunneling current increases when the tip approaches the substrate. By controlling a constant tunneling current by moving the tip up and down when scanning along a surface, the distance between the tip and the substrate can be kept constant. Therefore, the movement of the tip at each spot can represent the topography of the sample. Accidentally, when scanning a sample, contaminations can be observed on the substrate, which leads to the idea of fabricating nanostructures using this nanoscale tip and eventually to this concept of TBN. Later, silicon microcantilever with a tip was used and tip-substrate interaction forces were used to control the distance between the tip and the substrate, the atomic force microscope was invented which applies not only to conductive surfaces but also to non-conductive surfaces, extending the applications to biology and chemistry.
3 Technology
Based on the platform the TBN technology is implemented, it can be categorized into two types：AFM-based and STM-based.
3.1 AFM-based
| TBN
technology |
Atom-remove | DPN | tDPN | Thermal
Mechanical |
Thermal-chemical
(TCNL) |
Mechanical
Removal |
Electro-Chemical |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lateral
Resolution |
Sun 1nm [15] | 10 nm [16] | 10 nm [17] | Sub 20 nm [18] | 10 nm [19] | 10 nm [20] | 4 nm [21] |
| Speed | 0.4 - 80 nm/s [22] | 0.1 - 4 μm/s [1,23] | 0.1 - 200 μm/s [17, 24] | 20 mm/s [25] - 1.25 m/s [26] | 1 mm/s [19] | 0.1 - 40 μm/s [27] | 0.5 μm/s - 1mm/s [19] |
| Directly
processed material types |
Metal or semiconductors | Biological materials & chemicals | Polymer
& metals with low melting temperatures |
Polymer | Special polymer resist | Metal, semiconductor,
graphene |
Metal, semiconductor,
graphene |
| Vacumm | Ultra-high vacuum
(<10E-9 Torr) |
No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Need
Humidity Control |
No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
