Research Article

High-Speed Transmission and Mass Data Storage Solutions for Large-Area and Arbitrarily Structured Fabrication through Maskless Lithography

Table 2

Comparison of direct-write method features.

ProjectResolutionDiameter of substrateWriting speed

Laser beam DW
 LGDW12 μmФ < 100 mm10−4 mm2/s
 FGDW225 μmФ < 100 mm0.25 mm2/s
 LIFT310–200 μmФ < 100 mm3–50 mm/s up to 500 mm/s
Electron beam DW
 PML212.5 nmФ = 300 mm300 mm wafer per hour
 FLX-120028 nm26 × 33 mm237 hours
Our system200 nmФ = 120 mm1.7 m/s (24 mm2/s)

Laser-guided direct-write (LGDW).
2Flow-guided direct-write (FGDW).
3Laser induced forward transfer (LIFT).