Abstract: An approach is provided for separating a selected component from a plurality of components in a multi-component medium. A multi-component medium is created, including thermally conductive layer into which a template of patterned thermally conductive elements that are thermally separated from each other, a thermally active adhesion layer in thermal communication with the thermally conductive template, and a set of components attached to the thermally active adhesion layer in substantially the same pattern as thermally conductive template. The medium allows a selected component to be released by applying energy to a selected thermally conductive element corresponding to the selected component, inducing a temperature differential reducing the adhesion of the thermally active adhesion layer, without releasing non-selected components.

Abstract: Methods for separating a plurality of diamagnetic directed self-assembled diamagnetic components are provided. One method includes, for instance: contacting a release substrate to the plurality of diamagnetic components, the plurality of diamagnetic components including a non-diamagnetic component affixed to a diamagnetic portion by a first adhesive, and removing the release substrate, the non-diamagnetic component being affixed to a final substrate by a second adhesive and the release substrate being affixed to the diamagnetic portion by a third adhesive, and wherein the removing removes the diamagnetic portion and at least a portion of the first adhesive from the non-diamagnetic component.

Abstract: Methods for separating a plurality of diamagnetic directed self-assembled diamagnetic components are provided. One method includes, for instance: contacting a release substrate to the plurality of diamagnetic components, the plurality of diamagnetic components including a non-diamagnetic component affixed to a diamagnetic portion by a first adhesive, and removing the release substrate, the non-diamagnetic component being affixed to a final substrate by a second adhesive and the release substrate being affixed to the diamagnetic portion by a third adhesive, and wherein the removing removes the diamagnetic portion and at least a portion of the first adhesive from the non-diamagnetic component.

Abstract: Systems, and methods of use thereof, for assembling a plurality of diamagnetic components. The system including a first stage and a second stage, wherein each of the first stage and the second stage include a plurality of substages, the plurality of substages arranged in a checkerboard pattern, and a plurality of openings between the plurality of substages, wherein the plurality of the substages and the plurality of the openings of the first stage are complimentary to the plurality of the substages and the plurality of the openings of the second stage.

Abstract: Methods for binning, or sorting a plurality of components for directed self-assembly are provided. One method includes, for instance: providing a mapped wafer suspended in a mounting assembly; selecting at least one of the plurality of components for removal based on a set of parameters; moving at least one of an actuated impulse source and the mounting assembly to align the actuated impulse source and the at least one of the plurality of components; and removing the at least one of the plurality of components using the actuated impulse source, the removed at least one of the plurality of components falling into a bin below, the at least one of the plurality of components falling in any orientation.

Abstract: Methods of and systems for assembling a plurality of ferromagnetic components into a grid-array are provided. One method includes applying a vibratory force to a magnetic stage, the magnetic stage comprising a plurality of magnets and spacers arranged in an array; depositing a plurality of ferromagnetic components, each having a ferromagnetic strip, onto the magnetic stage, the vibratory force distributing the plurality of the ferromagnetic components substantially evenly across a surface of the magnetic stage, and wherein the vibratory force aligns at least one of the plurality of ferromagnetic components with a node of maximum magnetic field strength of the magnetic stage; and removing a set of the plurality of ferromagnetic components that are not in a node of maximum magnetic field strength through physical inversion of the magnetic stage.