POSTPONED
Introducing revolutionary nanopatterning and discovery tools for biology, physics, chemistry, and materials science
Monday, November 26th
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Rm 34-101
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Rm 34-101
Dr. Andrey Ivankin from TERA-print will be giving a presentation and demo on the TERA-Fab M and E series instruments.
The TERA-Fab M series provides the user with the ability to pattern surfaces with materials over cm2 areas. A wide variety of inks and substrates can be used, and arrays with as many as 160,000 pens are available. This tool is extremely useful for making the types of architectures traditionally made using contact printing or by dip-pen nanolithography, but it does not require a new stamp each time to generate a new pattern. Researchers can pattern features across the nanometer, micrometer, and macroscopic length scales all with the same tool. Applications involve the generation of electronic circuitry, combinatorial libraries of hard and soft matter, and anity templates that can localize nanoscopic structures on existing surfaces.
The TERA-Fab E series uses arrays with as many as 20,000 independently addressable pens, each with a tiny aperture to pattern surfaces with light. The custom software allows the researcher to rapidly stitch fields together over a 0.5x0.4 cm2 patterning area. Feature size resolution is sub-250 nm. This tool allows one to rapidly prototype electronic and optical devices, fabricate photomasks, and lithographically process photosensitive surfaces at the point-of-use. A clean room is not required.
Contact: Crystal Chu <ckchu@mit.edu>