Fabrication of roll imprint stamp for continuous UV roll imprinting process

Abstract

Recently, nano imprint lithography has been developed for mass production of nano-scale patterns on large-scale substrates. To achieve high throughput and cost reduction, roll-to-roll imprint lithography has been introduced. The roll-to-roll imprint is the suitable process for large area patterning, especially, flexible substrates for display devices. In this study, roll-to-roll imprint stamp is fabricated using poly-vinyl alcohol (PVA) mold and UV curable poly-dimethylsiloxanes (PDMS) resin for continuous roll imprinting process. The PVA mold was chosen since it is flexible and can be dissolved in water. Since the PDMS can form thin SiO x layer on the surface by oxygen plasma treatment, silane based hydrophobic anti-stiction layer can be formed directly on the surface of PDMS. As a result, nano-sized patterns were successfully formed on the flexible PET films by UV roll imprinting with the fabricated roll stamp.