Fabrication of Nanostructured Hydrophobic Surfaces with Laser Interference Lithography

Abstract:

The fabrication of large area nanoscale periodic structures on material surfaces for hydrophobicity engineering has been difficult due to the complex processes. Here we propose a two-step fabrication method for periodic nanostructures by combining laser interference lithography (LIL) and reactive ion etching (RIE). Sub-micron periodic nanotip patterns are fabricated in the photoresist by LIL, and then transferred into the silicon substrate using RIE. By measuring the contact angle (CA) of a water droplet on the substrate surface, the wettability of the surface with nanotip structures of various periods is studied. Our experiments show that the nanotip structures fabricated by the combined LIL and RIE process deliver satisfactory hydrophobic tendencies when the periods fall into the submicron scale. When the period of the structure is small enough, the hydrophilicity of the surface can be altered into hydrophobicity. The hydrophobicity achieved by this method is reusable and sustainable with low cost and no composition alteration comparing to chemical methods. The process developed in this work provides potential applications in biosensingand digital fluidics.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 815)
• Pages: 457-464
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.815.457
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Hang Yu, Bing Rui Lu, Hui Li, Jian Ying Li, Ran Liu
• Keywords: Hydrophobic, Laser Interference Lithography, Surface Nanostructure

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