Patent ID: 8597558

Claim:
A method for fabricating a soft mold used for patterning a substrate, comprising the sequence of steps of: arranging a master mold being smaller than that of the substrate, within a rectangular mold shaped jig; then forming a pre-polymer layer in the jig by filling at least a portion of the jig with a pre-polymer material to cover at least the master mold and an other portion on the jig beside the master mold; after forming the pre-polymer layer, attaching a back-plane substrate onto the pre-polymer layer; then forming a polymer layer by curing only a portion of the pre-polymer layer directly on the master mold, and leaving the other portion of the pre-polymer layer uncured beside the polymer layer; then stripping the polymer layer and the other portion of the pre-polymer layer from the jig and the master mold; and then removing the other portion of the pre-polymer layer from the polymer layer and the back-plane substrate, wherein the cured portion of the pre-polymer layer is set to be smaller than the substrate.