Patent ID: 7968273
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: B82Y,G03F,H01L

Abstract:
1. A method for patterning a nanostructure monolayer, the method comprising: a) disposing resist and a monolayer of nanostructures on a first layer, wherein the nanostructures are embedded in the resist, to provide a resist layer; b) exposing a predetermined pattern on the resist layer, to provide exposed resist in at least a first region of the resist layer and unexposed resist in at least a second region of the resist layer, wherein exposing a predetermined pattern on the resist layer to provide exposed resist in at least a first region comprises exposing the resist in the first region to ionizing radiation sufficient to incompletely cure the resist in the first region; c) i) removing the unexposed resist and its embedded nanostructures from the first layer without removing the exposed resist and its embedded nanostructures, whereby at least one nanostructure monolayer array defined by the first region remains on the first layer; c) ii) after step c) i) and before step d), exposing the incompletely cured resist in the first region to ionizing radiation sufficient to further cure the resist in the first region; and d) after step c) ii), exposing the first layer, the exposed resist and its embedded nanostructures to a temperature of at least about 300° C.