التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Flexible automated system for laser modified layer by layer assembly. |
| المؤلفون: |
Leake, Kaelyn, Eberbach, Tristan, Stensland, Alexander, Watts, Lauren, Yochum, Hank |
| المصدر: |
Review of Scientific Instruments; Jun2024, Vol. 95 Issue 6, p1-8, 8p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
THIN film devices, TURNTABLES, LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR lasers, POLYMER solutions, LASER ranging, ELECTROCHROMIC effect |
| People: |
ARDUINO, 14th century |
| مستخلص: |
An open-source automated system for laser modified layer by layer assembly is described. This flexible system, the first designed to be used with this process, can be used to fabricate a range of laser patterned, layer by layer thin films. The Arduino microcontroller-based system features a stepper motor-controlled turntable that holds solutions and water rinses for dipping. The substrate can be moved vertically to be dipped into each of the solutions throughout the process. A semiconductor laser is used to modify the thickness of the thin film during the chosen dipping cycles. Several aspects of the robotic system are easily controlled via software, including the average laser power, irradiation time, horizontal laser position, and vertical substrate position. The system is fully automated and, once started, does not require any user interaction. To demonstrate the capability of the automated system for patterning, electrochromic thin film devices using 50-bilayer laser patterned films using the polymers poly(allylamine hydrochloride) and sodium poly[2-(3-thienyl)-ethoxy-4-butylsulfonate] are presented. One device is patterned with the shape of a large "C," created by irradiating the sample (55 mW average power, 405 nm) while the substrate was moved vertically up and down or the laser was moved horizontally. The laser irradiates the sample during only the dipping in the polycation polymer solution. A second electrochromic thin film device is based on a sample with five parallel laser patterned lines, where each line is fabricated with different average laser powers and, hence, different thicknesses. The thicknesses of the lines vary by about 30 nm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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