Patents by Inventor Celia Nicolet

Celia Nicolet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240103361
    Abstract: A process for transfer imprinting using a novel family of anti-sticking layers, such as for nanoimprint lithography processes, is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Christophe Navarro, Celia Nicolet, Xavier Chevalier, Florian Delachat, Hubert Teyssedre
  • Patent number: 11880131
    Abstract: A process for transfer imprinting using a novel family of anti-sticking layers, such as for nanoimprint lithography processes, is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Christophe Navarro, Celia Nicolet, Xavier Chevalier, Florian Delachat, Hubert Teyssedre
  • Publication number: 20210072639
    Abstract: A process for transfer imprinting using a novel family of anti-sticking layers, such as for nanoimprint lithography processes, is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Christophe Navarro, Celia Nicolet, Xavier Chevalier, Florian Delachat, Hubert Teyssedre
  • Publication number: 20200231731
    Abstract: A process for preparing a nanostructured assembly by annealing a composition comprising a block copolymer on a surface. The block copolymer includes a first block resulting from the polymerization of at least one cyclic monomer having a structure as described herein. The block copolymer also includes a second block that includes a vinyl aromatic monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Christophe NAVARRO, Celia Nicolet, Karim Aissou, Muhammad Mumtaz, Eric Cloutet, Cyril Brochon, Guillaume Fleury, Georges Hadziioannou
  • Publication number: 20200057368
    Abstract: Provided is a process for controlling the critical dimension uniformity of ordered films of block copolymers on a nanometric scale. The invention also relates to the compositions used for controlling the critical dimension uniformity of ordered films of block copolymers and to the resulting ordered films that can be used in particular as masks in the lithography field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Xavier Chevalier, Raber Inoubli, Christophe Navarro, Celia Nicolet
  • Publication number: 20190002684
    Abstract: Provided is a process for reducing the structuring time of an ordered film of a diblock copolymer on a surface. The process includes curing, on a surface, a composition including a diblock copolymer at a structuring temperature between the Tg of the diblock copolymer and the decomposition temperature of the diblock copolymer to form an ordered film of the diblock copolymer on the substrate. The composition has a product ?effective*N of between 10.5 and 40 at the structuring temperature, where ?effective is the Flory-Huggins parameter of the diblock copolymer and N is the total degree of polymerization of the blocks of the diblock copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Christophe NAVARRO, Celia NICOLET, Xavier CHEVALIER
  • Publication number: 20190002657
    Abstract: Provided is a process for reducing the number of defects of an ordered film of a diblock copolymer on a surface. The process includes curing, on a surface, a composition including a diblock copolymer at a structuring temperature between the Tg of the diblock copolymer and the decomposition temperature of the diblock copolymer to form an ordered film of the diblock copolymer on the substrate. The composition has a product Xeffective*N of between 10.5 and 40 at the structuring temperature, where Xeffective is the Flory-Huggins parameter of the diblock copolymer and N is the total degree of polymerization of the blocks of the diblock copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Christophe NAVARRO, Celia NICOLET, Xavier CHEVALIER
  • Publication number: 20180371145
    Abstract: Provided is a process for improving the critical dimension uniformity of an ordered film of a diblock copolymer on a surface. The process includes curing, on a surface, a composition including a diblock copolymer at a structuring temperature between the Tg of the diblock copolymer and the decomposition temperature of the diblock copolymer to form an ordered film of the diblock copolymer on the substrate. The composition has a product Xeffective*N of between 10.5 and 40 at the structuring temperature, where Xeffective is the Flory-Huggins parameter of the diblock copolymer and N is the total degree of polymerization of the blocks of the diblock copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Christophe NAVARRO, Celia NICOLET, Xavier CHEVALIER
  • Publication number: 20180364562
    Abstract: Provided is a process for forming an ordered film of a block copolymer on a surface. The process includes curing, on a surface, a composition comprising at least one block copolymer at a structuring temperature between the highest Tg of the at least one block copolymer and the decomposition temperature of the at least one block copolymer to form an ordered film comprising the at least one block copolymer on the substrate. The composition has a product ? effective*N of between 10.5 and 40 at the structuring temperature, where ? effective is the Flory-Huggins parameter of the block copolymer and N is the total degree of polymerization of the blocks of the block copolymer. The ordered film has a thickness greater than 20 nm and a period greater than 10 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Christophe NAVARRO, Celia NICOLET, Xavier CHEVALIER
  • Publication number: 20180203348
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for controlling the critical dimension uniformity of ordered films of block copolymers on a nanometric scale. The invention also relates to the compositions used for controlling the critical dimension uniformity of ordered films of block copolymers and to the resulting ordered films that can be used in particular as masks in the lithography field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Xavier CHEVALIER, Raber INOUBLI, Christophe NAVARRO, Celia NICOLET
  • Patent number: 10023677
    Abstract: A method for controlling the synthesis of a block copolymer containing at least two blocks, with at least one nonpolar block and at least one polar block, said method making it possible in particular to control the ratio between the blocks and the molecular weight of each of the blocks, said copolymer being a block copolymer intended to be used as a mask in a method of nanolithography by direct self-assembly (DSA), said control being achieved by semicontinuous anionic polymerization in an aprotic nonpolar medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Christophe Navarro, Celia Nicolet, Xavier Chevalier
  • Patent number: 10011675
    Abstract: The invention relates to a block copolymer film nanostructured in nanodomains at a predetermined temperature, obtained from a basic block copolymer which is nonstructured at said predetermined temperature, and at least one block of which comprises styrene and at least another block of which comprises methyl methacrylate. The block copolymer film is useful for forming nano-lithography masks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Christophe Navarro, Celia Nicolet, Xavier Chevalier
  • Publication number: 20180171134
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for reducing the defectivity of a block copolymer (BCP1) film, the lower surface of which is in contact with a preneutralized surface (N) of a substrate (S) and the upper surface of which is covered by an upper surface neutralization layer (TC) in order to make it possible to obtain an orientation of the nanodomains of the block copolymer (BCP1) perpendicularly to the two lower and upper interfaces, where the upper surface neutralization layer (TC) employed to cover the upper surface of the block copolymer (BCP1) film comprises a second block copolymer (BCP2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: ARKEMA FRANCE, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)
    Inventors: Xavier Chevalier, Celia NICOLET, Christophe NAVARRO, Georges HADZIIOANNOU
  • Publication number: 20180173094
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for controlling the surface energy at the upper interface of a block copolymer (BCP1), the lower interface of which is in contact with a preneutralized surface of a substrate, in order to make it possible to obtain an orientation of the nanodomains of the block copolymer (BCP1) perpendicularly to the two lower and upper interfaces, the said process consisting in covering the upper surface of the block copolymer (BCP1) with an upper surface neutralization layer (TC) and being characterized in that the said upper surface neutralization layer (TC) comprises a second block copolymer (BCP2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: ARKEMA FRANCE, CENTER NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Xavier CHEVALIER, Celia NICOLET, Christophe NAVARRO, Georges HADZIIOANNOU
  • Publication number: 20180164679
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for obtaining high-period (typically >10 nm), thick (typically >20 nm) ordered films on a nanometric scale comprising a block copolymer (BCP). The invention also relates to the compositions used to obtain these thick ordered films and to the resulting ordered films that can be used in particular as masks in the lithography field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Xavier CHEVALIER, Raber INOUBLI, Christophe NAVARRO, Celia NICOLET
  • Patent number: 9976053
    Abstract: The invention relates to a block copolymer film nanostructured into nanodomains, obtained from a base block copolymer having a molecular weight of greater than 50 kg/mol, and preferably greater than 100 kg/mol and less than 250 kg/mol, and at least one block of which comprises styrene, and at least one other block of which comprises methyl methacrylate. This film is characterized in that the styrene-based block is formed by a copolymer of styrene and diphenylethylene (DPE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Christophe Navarro, Celia Nicolet, Xavier Chevalier
  • Publication number: 20180015645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for reducing the assembly time comprising a block copolymer (BCP). The invention also relates to the compositions used to obtain these ordered films and to the resulting ordered films that can be used in particular as masks in the lithography field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Xavier Chevalier, Raber Inoubli, Christophe Navarro, Celia Nicolet
  • Publication number: 20180011399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for reducing the number of defects in an ordered film comprising a block copolymer (BCP). The invention also relates to the compositions used to obtain these ordered films and to the resulting ordered films that can be used in particular as masks in the lithography field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Xavier Chevalier, Raber Inoubli, Christophe Navarro, Celia Nicolet
  • Publication number: 20170307973
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling the level of defects in films obtained using a composition comprising a blend of block copolymers and polymers deposited on a surface. The polymers comprise at least one monomer identical to those present in one or other block of the block copolymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Christophe NAVARRO, Celia NICOLET, Xavier CHEVALIER
  • Publication number: 20170145250
    Abstract: The invention relates to a block copolymer film nanostructured into nanodomains, obtained from a base block copolymer having a molecular weight of greater than 50 kg/mol, and preferably greater than 100 kg/mol and less than 250 kg/mol, and at least one block of which comprises styrene, and at least one other block of which comprises methyl methacrylate. This film is characterized in that the styrene-based block is formed by a copolymer of styrene and diphenylethylene (DPE).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Christophe NAVARRO, Celia NICOLET, Xavier CHEVALIER