Glass nanostructures fabricated by soft thermal nanoimprint
Résumé
A one-step, fast and potential low cost process has been developed to fabricate silica like glass nanostructures by combining sol-gel chemistry and thermal nanoimprint. An inorganic-organic sol-gel thin film is patterned at low pressure and temperature with flexible stamps. Various geometries are achieved with a patterning resolution of about 150 nm and patterns aspect ratio higher than 4. To obtain pure silica structures a thermal annealing at high temperatures is required. During this step most of the structures collapse due to fluidization of the sol-gel material. It is shown that if a suitable condensation level is obtained during imprinting, the nanostructures are thermally stable.
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