International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Volume. 5, Issue 3, 35101(2023)

Electric-driven flexible-roller nanoimprint lithography on the stress-sensitive warped wafer

Yu Fan1,2, Chunhui Wang1、*, Jiaxing Sun1, Xiaogang Peng1, Hongmiao Tian1, Xiangming Li1,2, Xiaoliang Chen1,2, Xiaoming Chen1, and Jinyou Shao1,2
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  • 1Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China
  • 2Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China
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    Surface nanopatterning of semiconductor optoelectronic devices is a powerful way to improve their quality and performance. However, photoelectric devices’ inherent stress sensitivity and inevitable warpage pose a huge challenge on fabricating nanostructures large-scale. Electric-driven flexible-roller nanoimprint lithography for nanopatterning the optoelectronic wafer is proposed in this study. The flexible nanoimprint template twining around a roller is continuously released and recovered, controlled by the roller’s simple motion. The electric field applied to the template and substrate provides the driving force. The contact line of the template and the substrate gradually moves with the roller to enable scanning and adapting to the entire warped substrate, under the electric field. In addition, the driving force generated from electric field is applied to the surface of substrate, so that the substrate is free from external pressure. Furthermore, liquid resist completely fills in microcavities on the template by powerful electric field force, to ensure the fidelity of the nanostructures. The proposed nanoimprint technology is validated on the prototype. Finally, nano-grating structures are fabricated on a gallium nitride light-emitting diode chip adopting the solution, achieving polarization of the light source.

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    Yu Fan, Chunhui Wang, Jiaxing Sun, Xiaogang Peng, Hongmiao Tian, Xiangming Li, Xiaoliang Chen, Xiaoming Chen, Jinyou Shao. Electric-driven flexible-roller nanoimprint lithography on the stress-sensitive warped wafer[J]. International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, 2023, 5(3): 35101

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jan. 13, 2023

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jul. 26, 2024

    The Author Email: Wang Chunhui (chw-nanoman@xjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1088/2631-7990/acd827

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