USING LIGHT AS A LENS FOR SUBMICRON, NEUTRAL-ATOM LITHOGRAPHY

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作者
TIMP, G [1 ]
BEHRINGER, RE [1 ]
TENNANT, DM [1 ]
CUNNINGHAM, JE [1 ]
PRENTISS, M [1 ]
BERGGREN, KK [1 ]
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[1] HARVARD UNIV,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1636
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We show that light can be used as a lens to focus a collimated neutral atomic beam to submicron dimensions during deposition onto a substrate. We have used an optical standing wave at 589 nm as an array of cylindrical lenses to focus a perpendicular sodium beam into a grating on a substrate, with a periodicity of 294.3 +/- 0.3 nm. This result is the first direct evidence of submicron focusing of atoms by light, and represents a fundamentally new scheme for submicron lithography.
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