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Reconfigurable phase-change photomask for grayscale photolithography

Reconfigurable phase-change photomask for grayscale photolithography
Reconfigurable phase-change photomask for grayscale photolithography
We demonstrate a grayscale photolithography technique which uses a thin phase-change film as a photomask to locally control the exposure dose and allows three-dimensional (3D) sculpting photoresist for the manufacture of 3D structures. Unlike traditional photomasks, the transmission of the phase-change material photomask can be set to an arbitrary gray level with submicron lateral resolution, and the mask pattern can be optically reconfigured on demand, by inducing a refractive-index-changing phase-transition with femtosecond laser pulses. We show a spiral phase plate and a phase-type super-oscillatory lens fabricated on Si wafers to demonstrate the range of applications that can be addressed with this technique.
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Wang, Q.
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Zheludev, N.I.
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Wang, Q., Yuan, G.H., Kiang, K.S., Sun, K., Gholipour, B., Rogers, E.T.F., Huang, K., Ang, S.S., Zheludev, N.I. and Teng, J.H. (2017) Reconfigurable phase-change photomask for grayscale photolithography. Applied Physics Letters, 110, [201110]. (doi:10.1063/1.4983198).

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We demonstrate a grayscale photolithography technique which uses a thin phase-change film as a photomask to locally control the exposure dose and allows three-dimensional (3D) sculpting photoresist for the manufacture of 3D structures. Unlike traditional photomasks, the transmission of the phase-change material photomask can be set to an arbitrary gray level with submicron lateral resolution, and the mask pattern can be optically reconfigured on demand, by inducing a refractive-index-changing phase-transition with femtosecond laser pulses. We show a spiral phase plate and a phase-type super-oscillatory lens fabricated on Si wafers to demonstrate the range of applications that can be addressed with this technique.

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Accepted/In Press date: 27 April 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 May 2017
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 408237
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408237
ISSN: 0003-6951
PURE UUID: 443aa447-4f53-4be9-8a3b-007c1ff671c7
ORCID for K.S. Kiang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7326-909X
ORCID for K. Sun: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6807-6253
ORCID for K. Huang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-2463
ORCID for N.I. Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Date deposited: 18 May 2017 04:01
Last modified: 15 Jun 2024 01:42

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Author: Q. Wang
Author: G.H. Yuan
Author: K.S. Kiang ORCID iD
Author: K. Sun ORCID iD
Author: B. Gholipour
Author: E.T.F. Rogers
Author: K. Huang ORCID iD
Author: S.S. Ang
Author: N.I. Zheludev ORCID iD
Author: J.H. Teng

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