Patent ID: 7514942

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a probe carriage constructed on a wafer; a plurality of scanning stages constructed on the same wafer carried by and coupled to the probe carriage, the scanning stages being individually movable across the surface of an adjacent substrate; a first electrostatic drive coupled between each scanning stage and the probe carriage to provide independent translation of each scanning stage in a first direction with respect to the probe carriage; a second electrostatic drive coupled between each scanning stage and the probe carriage to provide independent translation of each scanning stage in a second direction with respect to the probe carriage; a suspension system to allow movement through the electrostatic drives in the first direction and the second direction while holding the scanning stages to the probe carriage; and a plurality of probes constructed on the same wafer and attached to each scanning stage, each probe tip being individually movable towards and away from the adjacent substrate to write patterns in the substrate when moved toward the substrate based on the movement of the respective scanning stage.