An I-line photolithography process for ferroelectric polymers is developed. It is based on photocrosslinking using a bisazide photoinitiator. Patterned layers were realized down to 1–2 m resolution. Crosslinking yields a close-to-insoluble ferroelectric polymer network that counter intuitively has similar ferroelectric properties as a noncrosslinked film. The negative process is used to stack ferroelectric films on top of each other to make three-dimensional cross-bar arrays of nonvolatile ferroelectric capacitor memories.
van Breemen, A. J. J. M., van der Putten, J. B. P. H., Cai, R., Reimann, K., Marsman, A. W., Willard, N., de Leeuw, D. M., & Gelinck, G. H. (2011). Photocrosslinking of ferroelectric polymers and its application in three-dimensional memory arrays. Applied Physics Letters, 98(18), 183302. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3571284 (Original work published 2011)