PARALLEL, INDIVIDUALLY ADDRESSABLE PROBES FOR NANOLITHOGRAPHY

Patent №

US 6,642,129

Granted

2003-11-04

Filed 2001

Owner

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, THE

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10008719

A microfabricated probe array for nanolithography and process for designing and fabricating the probe array. The probe array consists of individual probes that can be moved independently using thermal bimetallic actuation or electrostatic actuation methods. The probe array can be used to produce traces of diffusively transferred chemicals on the substrate with sub-1 micrometer resolution, and can function as an arrayed scanning probe microscope for subsequent reading and variation of transferred patterns.

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AI classification

AI hardware0.97
Vision0.01
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, THE

assignment · 127520040

Assignors

LIU, CHANG, ZHANG, MING, BULLEN, DAVID ANDREW

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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