Accurate Location and Manipulation of Nanoscaled Objects Buried under Spin-Coated Films
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- 作者：Colin Rawlings ; Heiko Wolf ; James L. Hedrick ; Daniel J. Coady ; Urs Duerig ; Armin W. Knoll
- 刊名：ACS Nano
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：June 23, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：9
- 期：6
- 页码：6188-6195
- 全文大小：545K
- ISSN：1936-086X
文摘
Detection and precise localization of nanoscale structures buried beneath spin-coated films are highly valuable additions to nanofabrication technology. In principle, the topography of the final film contains information about the location of the buried features. However, it is generally believed that the relation is masked by flow effects, which lead to an upstream shift of the dry film鈥檚 topography and render precise localization impossible. Here we demonstrate, theoretically and experimentally, that the flow-shift paradigm does not apply at the submicrometer scale. Specifically, we show that the resist topography is accurately obtained from a convolution operation with a symmetric Gaussian kernel whose parameters solely depend on the resist characteristics. We exploit this finding for a 3 nm precise overlay fabrication of metal contacts to an InAs nanowire with a diameter of 27 nm using thermal scanning probe lithography.