S.V. Sreenivasan

Associate Professor and Thornton Faculty Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

Low Cost Nano-Patterning: Opportunities and Challenges

The ability to understand and manipulate matter at the nanometer scale has the potential to significantly impact many sectors of our economy. This talk will focus on the opportunities created by low cost nanolithography the ability to create structured patterns and shapes at the nanometer scale in areas such ultra-high density storage, novel memory devices, solid state lighting, optoelectronics, displays, sensors, and bio devices.

The talk will start out by looking at traditional patterning using photolithography and its impact on the electronics industry. It will then discuss step and flash imprint lithography (S-FILTM), a nanolithography technique originally developed at UT-Austin that is now being commercialized by Molecular Imprints, Inc. Key lithography metrics that create value in device applications and the practical challenges associated with achieving these metrics in manufacturing will also be discussed.

Finally, the speaker will discuss his experience in starting Molecular Imprints to develop nanolithography tools and processes. The capital intensive nature of this start-up company required a combination of approaches to resource the development of the technology that went beyond traditional venture capital financing.

Dr. Sreenivasan is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and the Thornton Centennial Fellow in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Founder and CTO of Molecular Imprints, which he co-founded in 2001.

Dr. Sreenivasan has served on the College of Engineering faculty since 1994 and has published numerous technical articles and reports. His specific research interests include the study of nanofabrication tool and process technologies, nano-fluidics, design and control of micro- and nano-precision machines, and real-time nano-scale sensing architectures. Dr. Sreenivasan received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University in 1994.

Friday, April 28, 2006, at 3:00 p.m.
ETC 2.136

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