Nanoimprint lithography for the manufacturing of flexible electronics

JY Shao, XL Chen, XM Li, HM Tian, CH Wang… - Science China …, 2019 - Springer
Flexible electronics have received considerable attention in academies and industries for
their promising applications in enormous fields, such as flexible displays, wearable sensors …

Thermocapillary approaches to the deliberate patterning of polymers

JP Singer - Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The phenomenon of thermocapillarity, the response of fluids to thermal gradients due to
thermal alteration of their surface tension, was first reported over a century ago. Since then …

Fabrication of artificial compound eye with controllable field of view and improved imaging

J Li, W Wang, X Mei, D Hou, A Pan… - ACS applied materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Many arthropods have compound eyes, which are made up of numerous separate visual
units (microlenses) or ommatidia. These natural compound eyes have exceptional optical …

High‐throughput and controllable fabrication of soft screen protectors with microlens arrays for light enhancement of OLED displays

Y Ding, Y Lin, L Zhao, C Xue, M Zhang… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, soft polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) screen protectors with microlens arrays
(MLAs) are fabricated through a feasible high‐throughput approach. Based on the lateral …

A Soft Tooling process chain employing Additive Manufacturing for injection molding of a 3D component with micro pillars

Y Zhang, DB Pedersen, AS Gøtje, M Mischkot… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2017 - Elsevier
The purpose of the research presented in this paper is to investigate the capability of a soft
tooling process chain employing Additive Manufacturing (AM) for preproduction of an insert …

Flexible biconvex microlens array fabrication using combined inkjet-printing and imprint-lithography method

X Zhu, Q Xu, Y Hu, H Li, F Wang, Z Peng… - Optics & Laser …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microlenses (MLs) and microlens arrays (MLAs) have been fabricated by various
manufacturing methods for use in many important micro-optical applications. It is still difficult …

Thermo-electrohydrodynamic patterning in nanofilms

H Nazaripoor, CR Koch, M Sadrzadeh… - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
To improve the electrically assisted patterning process and create smaller sized features
with the higher active surface area, the combined thermocapillary-electrohydrodynamic (TC …

Pattern formation in thin polymeric films via electrohydrodynamic patterning

G Lv, H Tian, J Shao, D Yu - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The free surface of a thin polymeric film is often unstable and deforms into various micro-
/nano-patterns under an externally applied electric field. This paper reviews a recent …

Compact micro/nano electrohydrodynamic patterning: using a thin conductive film and a patterned template

H Nazaripoor, CR Koch, M Sadrzadeh, S Bhattacharjee - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The influence of electrostatic heterogeneity on the electric-field-induced destabilization of
thin ionic liquid (IL) films is investigated to control spatial ordering and to reduce the lateral …

Micro-ball lens structure fabrication based on drop on demand printing the liquid mold

X Zhu, L Zhu, H Chen, L Yang, W Zhang - Applied Surface Science, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we demonstrated a simple micro-ball lens array (MBLA) fabrication method
using a drop-on-demand (DOD) droplet printing technique and liquid mold. The micro-ball …