Patent ID: 8601410

Claim:
A multi-level manufacture for forming fine-featured devices, the manufacture comprising: a waffle-shaped grid having: crossing lines having sidewalls, the lines on a lower level; openings defined at the lower level between the lines where the lines do not intersect, the openings defined on four sides by the facing sidewalls of two sets of crossing lines; and pillars at intersections of the lines, the pillars extending vertically on an upper level above the lower level; and coatings on the sidewalls surrounding the openings at the lower level of the waffle-shaped grid and on the sidewalls of the pillars at the upper level of the waffle-shaped grid, wherein the coating on the sidewalls surrounding each opening at the lower level forms a continuous lower band of coating material in each opening, and wherein the coating on the sidewalls of each pillar at the upper level forms a continuous upper band of coating material around each pillar.