Patent ID: 7425715

Claim:
A Digital Parallel Electron Beam Lithography Stamp (PEBLS) apparatus comprising: a substrate with a first side and a second side; a first array of parallel wires oriented in a first direction formed on the first side of the substrate; an array of lithographic nanotips capable of electron emission formed above the first wires and oriented substantially normal to the first side of the substrate; a second array of parallel wires formed above the array of lithographic nanotips and oriented in a second direction at an angle crossing with the first direction, wherein electron emission regions are formed between the wires in the array of second parallel wires; a control unit arranged to selectively address the electron emission regions in order to generate a lithographic pattern with the array of nanotips; a cell that forms an enclosing space on the first side of the substrate around the lithographic nanotips; and a target to which the lithographic pattern is transferred.