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Guided fracture of films on soft substrates to create micro/nano-feature arrays with controlled periodicity.
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Abstract
While the formation of cracks is often stochastic and considered undesirable, controlled fracture would enable rapid and low cost manufacture of micro/nanostructures. Here, we report a propagation-controlled technique to guide fracture of thin films supported on soft substrates to create crack arrays with highly controlled periodicity. Precision crack patterns are obtained by the use of strategically positioned stress-focusing V-notch features under conditions of slow application of strain to a degree where the notch features and intrinsic crack spacing match. This simple but robust approach provides a variety of precisely spaced crack arrays on both flat and curved surfaces. The general principles are applicable to a wide variety of multi-layered materials systems because the method does not require the careful control of defects associated with initiation-controlled approaches. There are also no intrinsic limitations on the area over which such patterning can be performed opening the way for large area micro/nano-manufacturing.
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