Coating processes – Nonuniform coating – Deforming the base or coating or removing a portion of the...
Reexamination Certificate
2004-10-29
2009-02-17
Fletcher, III, William Phillip (Department: 1792)
Coating processes
Nonuniform coating
Deforming the base or coating or removing a portion of the...
C427S557000, C427S355000, C427S271000, C977S849000, C977S850000, C977S851000, C977S855000, C977S857000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07491425
ABSTRACT:
A resist medium in which features are lithographically produced by scanning a surface of the medium with an AFM probe positioned in contact therewith. The resist medium comprises a substrate; and a polymer resist layer within which features are produced by mechanical action of the probe. The polymer contains thermally reversible crosslinkages. Also disclosed is a method that generally includes scanning a surface of the polymer resist layer with an AFM probe positioned in contact with the resist layer, wherein heating the probe and a squashing-type mechanical action of the probe produces features in the layer by thermally reversing the crosslinkages.
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Despont Michel
Duerig Urs T.
Frommer Jane E.
Gotsmann Bernd W.
Hawker Craig Jon
Cantor & Colburn LLP
Fletcher, III William Phillip
International Business Machines - Corporation
Tennet Peter
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