CMU MEMS Laboratory Publication Abstract |
in Applied Physics Letters, Volume 74, Number 25, pp. 3902-3903, June 1999. | |
Writing nanometer-scale pits in sputtered carbon films using the scanning tunneling microscope | |
S. C. Eagle and G. Fedder
ABSTRACT: |
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A reproducible method of the formation of pits in a sputtered carbon surface with a platinum-iridium tunneling tip is presented for possible use in lithography or data storage applications. Thin carbon films are sputtered on top of chrome and gold metallic underlayers on a silicon substrate. Overall surface roughness of the carbon films is under 3 Å. Holes are produced in the carbon film by applying short voltage pulses ~4–8 V in height, 250 ns–100 µs in length! across the tunneling gap. An array of holes written in the carbon demonstrate reproducibility and the feasibility of using this multilayered structure in a data storage system. | |
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