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Diamond Nanopit Arrays Fabricated by Room-Temperature Nanoimprinting using Diamond Molds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2011

Shuji Kiyohara
Affiliation:
Advanced Faculty of Electric and Control System Engineering Course, Maizuru National College of Technology, 234 Aza Shiroya, Maizuru, Kyoto 625-8511, Japan
Masaya Kumagai
Affiliation:
Advanced Faculty of Electric and Control System Engineering Course, Maizuru National College of Technology, 234 Aza Shiroya, Maizuru, Kyoto 625-8511, Japan
Yoshio Taguchi
Affiliation:
Application and Technical Section, ELIONIX INC., 3-7-6 Motoyokoyama, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0063, Japan
Yoshinari Sugiyama
Affiliation:
Application and Technical Section, ELIONIX INC., 3-7-6 Motoyokoyama, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0063, Japan
Yukiko Omata
Affiliation:
Application and Technical Section, ELIONIX INC., 3-7-6 Motoyokoyama, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0063, Japan
Yuichi Kurashima
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical System Engineering, University of Yamanashi, 4-3-11 Takeda, Kofu, Yamanashi 400-8511, Japan
Hirofumi Takikawa
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan
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Abstract

We have investigated the nanopatterning of chemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond films in room-temperature nanoimprint lithography (RT-NIL), using a diamond nanodot mold. We have proposed the use of polysiloxane as an electron beam (EB) mask and RT-imprint resist materials. The diamond molds of cylinder dot using the RT-NIL process were fabricated with polysiloxane oxide mask in EB lithography technology. The dot in minimum diameter is 500 nm. The pitch between the dots is 2 μm, and dot has a height of about 600 nm. It was found that the optimum imprinting conditions for the RT-NIL : time from spin-coating to imprinting t1 of 1 min , pressure time t2 of 5 min, imprinting pressure P of 0.5 MPa. The imprint depth obtained after the press under their conditions was 500 nm. We carried out the RT-NIL process for the fabrication of diamond nanopit arrays, using the diamond nanodot molds that we developed. The resulting diamond nanopit arrays with 500 nm-diameter and 200 nm-depth after the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) oxygen ion beam etching were fabricated. The diameter of diamond nanopit arrays was in good agreement with that of the diamond nanodot mold.

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