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Canadian R&D Takes Up European Tool
National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI) has agreed to buy an EVG520HE semi-automated hot embossing system from European toolmaker EV Group (EVG).
National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI) has agreed to buy an EVG520HE semi-automated hot embossing system from European toolmaker EV Group (EVG).
"Imprint lithography has become a credible solution for low cost high-throughput micro- and nanopatterning using polymers,” says Michel Dumoulin, director of Advanced Materials Design at the IMI. “This opens the way for new fabrication technologies of strategic importance for research and technology for Canadian industry. These advances have become possible by using proven fabrication technologies such as the ones developed by EV Group.”
One application that the IMI will research is patterning surfaces for various applications from biorecognition to magnetic data storage. The EVG520HE produces a high-quality pattern transfer from a stamp to a polymer substrate creating structures in the nanometre range.

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