Yan Li et al 2008 Nanotechnology 19 055303 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/19/05/055303
Yan Li1,3, Fengjie Qi1, Hong Yang1, Qihuang Gong1,3, Xianzi Dong2 and Xuanming Duan2
Show affiliationsWe propose a method to measure the nonuniform shrinkage and stretching of polymerized nanostructures by marking them with periodical points. The method was tested, and the results showed that suspended lines themselves shrank after fabrication, but they were also stretched due to the shrinkage of their support anchors, a phenomenon that has not been investigated much before. The extension strain was measured from the change in the separation points, which reached 75% for a 2 µm-long line with a width of 40 nm.
81.16.-c Methods of nanofabrication and processing
81.07.-b Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization
Soft matter, liquids and polymers
Issue 5 (6 February 2008)
Received 3 August 2007, in final form 23 November 2007
Published 14 January 2008
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