Patent ID: 7410904

Claim:
A method comprising: fabricating an imprint-fabricated ribbon using imprint lithography, including integrating the imprint-fabricated ribbon in an imprint fabricated sensor, by: providing a semiconductor active layer having a prescribed thickness on a substrate, depositing an imprintable layer on the semiconductor active layer, imprinting the unprintable layer in the pattern of an imprint-fabricated ribbon to create imprinted portions of the imprintable layer and non-imprinted portions of the imprintable layer, depositing a protective layer on both imprinted portions of the imprintable layer and non-imprinted portions of the imprintable layer, removing the non-imprinted portions of the imprintable layer from the substrate, wherein the non-imprinted portions include those portions of the protective layer deposited on the non-imprinted portions of the imprintable layer, and etching the semiconductor active layer, wherein those portions of the semiconductor active layer that are below the remaining protective layer following lift-off are substantially not etched, while those portions of the semiconductor active layer that are not below the remaining protective layer following lift-off are substantially etched.