Plasma directed assembly and organization: bottom-up nanopatterning using top-down technology.
Fabrication of periodic nanodot or nanocolumn arrays on surfaces is performed by top-down lithographic procedures or bottom-up self-assembly methods, which both make use of plasma etching to transfer the periodic pattern. Could plasma etching alone act as an assembly--organization method to create the pattern and then transfer it to the substrate? We present data that support this idea and propose a mechanism of periodicity formation where etching and simultaneous deposition take place.
Vourdas
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Institute of Microelectronics, NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki 15310, Greece.
Kontziampasis
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Kokkoris
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Constantoudis
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V
Goodyear
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Tserepi
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Cooke
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Gogolides
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