All-optical Lithography for Spatiotemporal Patterning of High-Modulation Azopolymer Microreliefs

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Autores principales: Januariyasa, I Komang, Reda, Francesco, Liubimtsev, Nikolai, Saphiannikova, Marina, Borbone, Fabio, Salvatore, Marcella, Oscurato, Stefano Luigi
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author Januariyasa, I Komang
Reda, Francesco
Liubimtsev, Nikolai
Saphiannikova, Marina
Borbone, Fabio
Salvatore, Marcella
Oscurato, Stefano Luigi
author_facet Januariyasa, I Komang
Reda, Francesco
Liubimtsev, Nikolai
Saphiannikova, Marina
Borbone, Fabio
Salvatore, Marcella
Oscurato, Stefano Luigi
contents Microstructured surfaces are central to photonics, biointerfaces, and coating technologies, but they are typically fabricated through multistep workflows involving masks, molds, and postprocessing. Azopolymers offer a direct light-driven route to surface structuring, yet holographic photopatterning of flat films has mainly remain limited to smooth, shallow, and engraving-like reliefs with limited vertical modulation. Here we show that computer-generated holograms with co-designed bright and dark regions can spatially confine inward mass transport and directly generate isolated protruding microstructures with several micrometer surface modulation from pristine flat azopolymer films. Single exposures produce individual protrusions and protrusion arrays, whereas sequential tailored exposures further reshape microrelief morphology over time. Using this spatiotemporal scheme, we fabricate flattenedtop micropillars, programmable arrays, freeform continuous microreliefs, and hierarchical structures from a pristine flat film, and we demonstrate write-erase-rewrite cycles in the same surface region. These results establish an all-optical strategy for generating and reconfiguring high modulation azopolymer microreliefs through combined control of spatial and temporal degrees of freedom of holographic illumination.
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spellingShingle All-optical Lithography for Spatiotemporal Patterning of High-Modulation Azopolymer Microreliefs
Januariyasa, I Komang
Reda, Francesco
Liubimtsev, Nikolai
Saphiannikova, Marina
Borbone, Fabio
Salvatore, Marcella
Oscurato, Stefano Luigi
Optics
Microstructured surfaces are central to photonics, biointerfaces, and coating technologies, but they are typically fabricated through multistep workflows involving masks, molds, and postprocessing. Azopolymers offer a direct light-driven route to surface structuring, yet holographic photopatterning of flat films has mainly remain limited to smooth, shallow, and engraving-like reliefs with limited vertical modulation. Here we show that computer-generated holograms with co-designed bright and dark regions can spatially confine inward mass transport and directly generate isolated protruding microstructures with several micrometer surface modulation from pristine flat azopolymer films. Single exposures produce individual protrusions and protrusion arrays, whereas sequential tailored exposures further reshape microrelief morphology over time. Using this spatiotemporal scheme, we fabricate flattenedtop micropillars, programmable arrays, freeform continuous microreliefs, and hierarchical structures from a pristine flat film, and we demonstrate write-erase-rewrite cycles in the same surface region. These results establish an all-optical strategy for generating and reconfiguring high modulation azopolymer microreliefs through combined control of spatial and temporal degrees of freedom of holographic illumination.
title All-optical Lithography for Spatiotemporal Patterning of High-Modulation Azopolymer Microreliefs
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.25048