June 14, 2011 – Marketwire — NanoInk’s NanoFabrication Systems Division is launching a force sensor and levelling devices at the Nanotech Conference and Expo, part of TechConnect World. NanoInk will also be presenting on Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) advances.
Force sensing with 1D levelling launched with the NanoArrayer 3000, and is also available on NanoInk’s NLP 2000. Combined with automation software, it facilitates automated pen array levelling and surface plane correction. Wizards guide users for printing micro and nano-arrays of uniform features across an entire glass slide.
For 2D levelling, proprietary sapphire ball technology enables large 2D arrays of high density pens to be levelled without contacting the substrate. This avoids cross contamination or the need for a sacrificial substrate area.
"Chips will be able to be printed with over a billion features in the 50nm to 10um size scale with densities greater than the current 55,000 2D pen array," said Tom Warwick, NanoInk GM, NanoFabrication Systems Division. Proteomics and genomics are some of the suitable applications for this "massively parallel high density printed arrays of features with low coefficients of variation," he added.
NanoInk’s NLP 2000 System is a desktop nanofabrication system that allows rapid design and custom engineering of functionalized surfaces on the micro and nanoscale, using DPN to transfer minute material quantities over a large, environmentally controlled work area. Organic, inorganic, and biological molecules can be deposited via the direct write, tip-based lithography technique. Researchers can deposit multiple materials, rapidly patterning arbitrary micro-and nanoscale features.
Jason Haaheim, Ph.D., and a senior R&D engineer at NanoInk, will present "Advances in Direct-Write Nanoscale Deposition and Patterning" on Wednesday, June 15, at 1:50 p.m. in room 103 at the Nanotech Conference and Expo. The presentation will provide additional details on both 1D and 2D levelling. NanoInk will also demonstrate the NLP 2000 at booth #1818.
NanoInk Inc. specializes in nanometer-scale manufacturing and applications development for engineering, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and education industries. More information is available at: www.nanoink.net/divisions.html#NanoFabrication.