Design and prototype of an automated system for commercially viable production using micro contact printing

• Main Author: Chauhan, Karan
• Other Authors: David E. Hardt.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007
• Subjects: Mechanical Engineering.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38293

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-100). === This dissertation is a documentation of the thought process, its justification and the implementation details that went into prototyping a fully automated system employing Micro Contact Printing, an emerging technique for replication and pattern transfer using soft organic materials, for a nano technology based company in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the summer of 2006. The thesis takes the reader through an extensive literature review of the suite of soft lithography techniques - Near Field Soft Optical Lithography, Replica Molding and Micro contact printing - focused on the critical factors for taking these techniques from research facilities to commercial manufacturing facilities. Micro Contact Printing was studied more extensively than the others. We propose a system level design for viable manufacturing using micro contact printing and also present the implementation details of an automated prototype for the same. === by Karan Chauhan. === M.Eng.