Patent ID: 7927541
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: B82Y,G03F,H01L

Abstract:
1. In an imprint lithography system, a method of forming a material layer on a substrate, the method comprising: forming a plurality of flowable regions of the material on the substrate; contacting the material in the flowable regions with a plurality of physically separate imprint lithography molds disposed on a template, each imprint lithography mold having three dimensional relief patterns thereby causing the material in each of the flowable regions to conform to a corresponding one of the three dimensional relief patterns; inducing localized sections of the template to flex by urging the localized sections of the template to further engage each of the imprint lithography molds with the material in the flowable regions so the imprint lithography molds conform to a topography of the substrate, wherein flexing of the template at a first localized section is different from flexing of the template at a second localized section; and solidifying the material in the flowable regions so each of the flowable regions maintains three dimensional patterns conforming to a corresponding one of the three dimensional relief patterns of the imprint lithography molds, wherein an area surrounding each imprint lithography mold has features that facilitate the flexing of the localized sections of the template.