Patent ID: 8795775

Claim:
A method for applying a patterned coating of resist onto a surface of a substrate, comprising the steps of: embossing a resist coating of flowable resist at least once, between a stamp having a patterned surface that is at least one of a micropattern and a nanopattern and a pattern between nanopattern and micropattern comprising recesses and a carrier so as to provide the patterned surface with a patterned resist coating wherein patterned resist extends into the recesses; separating the stamp carrying a first patterned part of the resist coating that forms a continuous layer on the patterned surface of the stamp and the carrier carrying a second part of the resist coating from each other, wherein at least one of (a) the carrier is planar and (b) the second part of the resist coating forms a continuous layer on the carrier after said separating; transferring the first patterned part of the resist coating onto a surface of a substrate by pressing the first patterned part of the resist coating on the patterned surface of the stamp against the surface of the substrate; curing the first patterned part of the resist coating; and demolding the first patterned part of the resist coating from the stamp by separating the stamp from the first patterned part of the resist coating.