LILIT
LILIT (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary LIThography) beamline is devoted to the fabrication, by means of X-ray lithography, of structures at micro and nano resolution level, taking advantage of the high brilliance and wide X-ray domain spectrum of Elettra. The main feature of this beamline is the wide lithographic window achieved by combining high-pass (beryllium window) and low-pass (mirrors at increasing angle of incidence) filters; this allows the continuous change of the spectral range of interest from the soft to hard X-ray region.
We designed and fabricated amplitude DOEs to generate X-ray vortices with high TC and tested them in scanning and full field microscope setup configurations. DOE function is calculated summing a helical wave with a desired TC to a spherical wave. In the scanning setup we used a the DOE as microscope objective and demonstrated the doughnut intensity pattern characteristic to the vortex but we could not characterize the phase distribution.
Micro-fluidic is a field of science and technology which deals with small fluid's volumes (< 1 µl) and allows to observe biological samples under mimicked physiological conditions. LILIT is developing in collaboration with SISSI IR beam line a microfluidic set-up in order to perform µ-FTIR on living cells.
Welcome to LILIT @ Elettra
The LILIT facility operates for a wide range of lithography research and maintains comprehensive state-of-the-art infrastructure comprising advanced lithography tools (E-beam, photolithography, FIB, nano-imprint etc) and many other pieces of processing and characterization equipment.
Research Highlights
Focused X-Ray Vortices
Microfluidics - IR
User Area
Proposal SubmissionWe invite users and collaborators to discuss their proposals with the beamline local contacts well in advance before the submission deadline. This is crucial for a careful assesment of the experiment feasibility and may lead to improvements in the proposed experimental plan.
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Call for proposalsThe deadline for proposal submission for beamtime allocation is to be announced .On-line submission using the Virtual Users Office at the following URL: |
News
EIPBN 2011LILIT group presented the activity on "Fabrication of nickel diffractive phase elements for X-ray microscopy at 8 keV photon energy." on 55th EIPBN 31 May - 1 June 2011 in Las Vegas. MNE 2011
LILIT group presented at 37th International Conference on Micro and Nano Engineering (19 - 23 September 2011, Berlin) activity on: |
NAPANIL
LILIT is involved in NaPANIL European-funded Framework 7 Large-Scale Project. NaPANIL is a NMP thematic priority, bringing together 18 partners from: industry, academia, and private institutes, to achieve ambitious goals. |
