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Nanolithography

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An array of polymer tips that can channel light to an underlying substrate can be used to generate intricate nanostructures with high throughput and over large areas.

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Figure 1: Beam-pen lithography.

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Hernandez-Santana, A., Graham, D. Written with light. Nature Nanotech 5, 629–630 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.179

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