Interfacial Chemistries for Nanoscale Transfer Printing

We have devised a contact printing technique for transferring functional materials from the raised regions of a stamp onto a substrate. The process relies on using self-assembled monolayers as "glues" and "release layers" for pattern transfer. This technique is purely additive and it readily prints nanometer length scale features. Furthermore, pattern transfer is fast and occurs in a single step at ambient conditions. We illustrate the versatility of this technique by printing single-layer metal patterns of different sizes as well as metal/dielectric/metal multilayers for functional capacitors.