Ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) is a
manufacturing technique for producing nanostructures using
UV-curable resin. One of its main advantages is its sheer
simplicity; UV-NIL essentially consists of pouring a liquid resin
over a nanostructured mold, making the resin solidify using UV
irradiation, and then releasing it from the mold. The result is a
solid polymer with a nanostructure that is the inverse of that of
the mold. Using this technique, a great variety of functional
devices and thin films can be made for applications in fields such
as optics, electronics, healthcare, biology research, and solar
cells, to name just but a few.
Water predictions: Telling when a nanolithography mold will
break through droplets
