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http://dx.doi.org/10.5228/KSPP.2007.16.4.282

Induction Heating Apparatus for Rapid Heating of Flat-Type Metallic Mold in Hot Embossing  

Hong, S.K. (한국생산기술연구원 정밀금형팀)
Lee, S.H. (한국생산기술연구원 정밀금형팀)
Heo, Y.M. (한국생산기술연구원 정밀금형팀)
Kang, J.J. (한국생산기술연구원 정밀금형팀)
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Transactions of Materials Processing / v.16, no.4, 2007 , pp. 282-287 More about this Journal
Abstract
Hot embossing, one of Nanoimprint Lithography(NIL) techniques, has been getting attention as an alternative candidate of next generation patterning technologies by the advantages of simplicity and low cost compared to conventional photolithographies. A typical hot embossing usually, however, takes more than ten minutes for one cycle of the process because of a long thermal cycling. Over the last few years a number of studies have been made to reduce the cycle time for hot embossing or similar patterning processes. The target of this research is to develop an induction heating apparatus for heating a metallic micro patterning mold at very high speed with the large-area uniformity of temperature distribution. It was found that a 0.5 mm-thick nickel mold can be heated from $25^{\circ}C\;to\;150^{\circ}C$ within 1.5 seconds with the temperature variation of ${\pm}5^{\circ}C$ in 4-inch diameter area, using the induction heating apparatus.
Keywords
Hot Embossing; Rapid Heating; Induction Heating; Nanoimprint Lithography;
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