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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 20.
Published in final edited form as: Small. 2010 May 21;6(10):1082–1086. doi: 10.1002/smll.200901538

Table 1.

The measured and estimated feature size for different forces applied to the polymer pyramid.

z-piezo
extension [μm]
Force [mN] Measured feature
edge length [μm]
Estimated feature
edge length [μm]
1 0.7 0.56 ± 0.08 0.36[b]
2 2.5 1.04 ± 0.08 1.12[b]
3 4.2 1.26 ± 0.07 1.22[c]
4 7.2 1.45 ± 0.07 1.41[c]
5 9.3 1.60 ± 0.06 1.56[c]
6 13.1 1.77 ± 0.06 1.81[c]
7 15.9 1.99 ± 0.08 1.99[c]
6 12.1 1.74 ± 0.05 1.74[c]
5 8.0 1.54 ± 0.05 1.47[c]
4 5.3 1.30 ± 0.06 1.29[c]
3 2.4 1.07 ± 0.08 1.08[b]
2 0.8 0.53 ± 0.07 0.41[b]
1 0 0[a] 0.07[b]
[a]

The 0-μm feature edge length means no dot is observed.

[b]

Feature edge lengths were estimated accordingto Equation (7) using N = 8000, E = 1.38 MPa, Ltop = 70 nm, and ν = 0.33.

[c]

Estimated feature edge length by using N = 8000, E = 8.97 MPa, Ltop = 70 nm, ν = 0.33, and z0 = 2.1 μm as inputs in Equation (8).