Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Jarrett Dumond

Hong Yee Low

Kyoko Yamamoto

Isabel Rodriguez

Yee Chong Loke

M S M Saifullah

Hazrat Hussain

Kambiz Ansari

Christina Yuan Ling Tan

Ramakrishnan Ganesan

Su Hui Lim

Karen Chong

Satoshi Amamiya

There is provided a process for making a patterned metal oxide structure comprising the step of heating an imprint structure comprising a polymerized organometallic compound to remove organic material and thereby form the patterned metal oxide structure, wherein the imprint structure is formed by polymerizing a resist mixture comprising at least one olefinic polymerizable compound and a polymerizable organometallic compound having, e.g., at least one carboxylate of Formula 1: wherein

Process for making a patterned metal oxide structure

There is provided a process for forming a laminated structure, the process comprising the step of bonding a polymer film to an array of structures disposed on a substrate, and wherein a plurality of cavities are formed between the polymer film and the array of structures during the bonding.

Process for forming a laminated structure

For forming a nickel mold, a metal and a corresponding etchant are selected such that the etchant selectively etches the metal over nickel. The metal is sputtered onto a surface of a template having nano-structures to form a sacrificial layer covering the nano-structures. Nickel is electroplated onto the sacrificial layer to form a nickel mold, but leaving a portion of the sacrificial layer exposed. The sacrificial layer is contacted with the etchant through the exposed portion of the sacrificial layer to etch away the sacrificial layer until the nickel mold is separated from the template. Subsequently, the nickel mold may be replicated or scaled-up to produce a replicate mold by electroplating, where the replicate mold has nano-structures that match the nano-structures on the template. The metal may be copper.

Systems and processes for forming molds such as nickel molds

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent (EL) element which is provided with a pair of electrodes and two or more organic layers disposed between the electrodes, and which includes light-emitting layers as the two or more organic layers. The manufacturing method for an organic EL element includes: a step for forming one electrode of the pair of electrodes; a step for forming the two or more organic layers which have a periodic structure wherein the propagation direction of light propagating in a direction substantially perpendicular to the thickness direction of the light-emitting layers is inclined in said thickness direction; and a step for forming the other electrode of the pair of electrodes. In the step for forming the two or more organic layers, two or more planar layers constituting the organic layers are laminated, and the periodic structure which is periodically arranged in two dimensions is then formed on the two or more planar layers by means of an imprinting method in the plane perpendicular to the thickness direction of the light-emitting layers.

Method for manufacturing organic electroluminescent element having organic layers with periodic structure

An imprint lithographic method for making a polymeric structure comprising the steps of:

Imprint lithographic method for making a polymeric structure

The present invention is directed to micro- and nano-scale imprinting methods and the use of such methods to fabricate supported and/or free-standing 3-D micro- and/or nano-structures of polymeric, ceramic, and/or metallic materials, particularly for pixel segregation in OLED-based displays. In some embodiments, a duo-mold approach is employed in the fabrication of these structures. In such methods, surface treatments are employed to impart differential surface energies to different molds and/or different parts of the mold(s). Such surface treatments permit the formation of three-dimensional (3-D) structures through imprinting and the transfer of such structures to a substrate. In some or other embodiments, such surface treatments and variation in glass transition temperature of the polymers used can facilitate separation of the 3-D structures from the molds to form free-standing micro- and/or nano-structures individually and/or in a film. In some or other embodiments, a 'latch-on' assembly technique is utilized to form supported and/or free-standing stacked micro- and/or nano-structures that enable the assembly of polymers without a glass transition temperature and eliminate the heating required to assemble thermoplastic polymers.

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