Printing with High-resolution Stamps

Contact Printing with High-resolution Stamps 

Contact printing involves the use of an element with surface relief (i.e. the stamp ) for patterned transfer of material (i.e. the ink ) to a substrate. Historically this approach has been used primarily to produce printed text or images with features that are 100 pm or larger in their minimum dimension. Its use for patterning functional materials in active systems which incorporate micron or 

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Contact Printing with High-resolution Stamps... 

Micro-contact printing (pCP) uses high resolution rubber stamps with inks (e.g. alkanethiols) that form self assembled monolayers (SAMs) on the surface (e.g. thin gold film) that is printed [13]. In one pCP approach, these SAMs act as resists for etching material in the unprinted areas, as illustrated in Fig. 10.11. 

Nanotransfer printing (nTP) is a more recent high resolution printing technique. It uses surface chemistries as interfacial glues and release layers (rather than inks ) to control the transfer of solid material layers from relief features on a stamp to a substrate [10-12, 44], This approach is purely additive (i.e. material is only deposited in locations where it is needed) and it can generate complex two or three-dimensional structures in single or multiple layers with nanometer resolu-... 

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