Unusual 3D lithography approaches for fabrication of polymeric photonic microstructures

Novel and intriguing lithographic approaches based on instabilities of liquid polymers and electro-hydro-dynamic at nanoscale have been developed. The unusual fabrication methods were aimed at fabricating 3D polymeric microstructures. A variety of microstructures were fabricated and tested for applications in different fields

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