Brookhaven Science Associates, Lcc

Kevin G Yager

Charles Thomas Black

Aaron Stein

Gwen Wright

This disclosure provides embodiments of an approach that enforces coexistence of multiple, aligned block copolymer morphologies within a single patterning layer.

Lithographic patterning

A nano-confinement platform that may allow improved quantification of the structural order of nanometer-scale systems. Sample-holder 'chips' are designed for the GTSAXS experimental geometry. The platform involves fabricated nanostructured sample holders on and in one or more corners of a substrate support where the sample material of interest is positioned at the corner of the substrate support. In an embodiment, the substrate material making up the substrate support beneath the sample-holding area is removed. A scattering x-ray sample platform includes a substrate support arranged in a parallelepiped form, having a substantially flat base and a substantially flat top surface, the top surface being substantially parallel with the base, the parallelepiped having a plurality of corners. At least one corner of the substrate support has a sample holding area formed in the top surface of the substrate support and within a predetermined distance from the corner. The sample holding area includes a regular array of nano-wells formed in the top surface of the substrate support.

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Kevin G Yager