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Dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) is an atomic force microscope (AFM) [1]) based patterning technique in which molecules are transported from a sharp tip to a surface [2, 3]. With DPN, the molecules to be deposited are first loaded onto the tip by dipping the tip into a melt or solution of the substance to be deposited. Similar to a pen which people use to write notes on a paper, the atomically sharp tip is scanned in contact with a sample surface. The ink molecules are transported to the surface driven by capillary forces normally generated by the condensed water or melted ink when tip contacts surface. Typically, DPN allows surface patterning with a feature size on scales of less than 100 nm [4]. DPN is a quite unique method for patterning because it depends on the delivery of molecules to surfaces rather than energy (in the form of light, force, heat, or electricity) to make...
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Zhang, Y., Berger, R., Butt, HJ. (2012). Dip-Pen Nanolithography. In: Bhushan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9751-4_282
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