Deirdre OlynicK

Staff Scientist, Nanofabrication Facility
dlolynick@lbl.gov, 510.495.2893

Research interests

  • Nano-imprint template fabrication
  • E-beam lithography
  • Resist processing and chemistry
  • Nanoscale plasma etching

Current projects

  • Systematic determination of optimum resist/solvent development chemistry for sub-10 nm resolution
  • Plasma etching of micro and nano-scale silicon features with ultra-smooth sidewalls.
  • Fundamentals of plasma etching for sub-20 nm features and beyond.
  • Nano-imprint template lithography and etching.

Selected publications

  1. Olynick, D. L; Liddle, J. A.; Harteneck, B. D., Cabrini S.; Rangelow, I. W. Nanoscale pattern transfer for templates, NEMS, and nano-optics, Proceedings of SPIE 6462 (2007).
  2. Olynick, D. L.; Rangelow, I.; Liddle, J. A.; Silicon Nanopatterning using Cr hard-mask and HBr plasma chemistry; Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B; Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures (2005), 23(5), 2073-2077
  3. Olynick, Deirdre L.; Harteneck, Bruce D.; Veklerov, Eugene; Tendulkar, Mihir; Liddle, J. Alexander; Kilcoyne, A. L. David; Tyliszczak, Tolek. 25 nm mechanically buttressed high aspect ratio zone plates: Fabrication and performance. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology, B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures--Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena (2004), 22(6), 3186-3190.
  4. Jung, G.-Y.; Olynick, D. L.; Straznicky, J.; Li, Z.; Li, X.; Ohlberg, D. A. A.; Chen, Y.; Wang, S.-Y.; Liddle, J. A.; Tong, W. M.; Williams, R. Stanley. One-kilobit cross-bar molecular memory circuits at 30-nm half-pitch fabricated by nanoimprint lithography. Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing (2005), A80(6), 1173-1178.
  5. Olynick, D. L.; Gibson, J. M.; Averback, R. S. Impurity-suppressed sintering in copper nanophase materials. Philosophical Magazine A: Physics of Condensed Matter: Structure, Defects and Mechanical Properties (1998), 77(5), 1205-1221.
  6. Yeadon, M.; Yang, J. C.; Averback, R. S.; Bullard, J. W.; Olynick, D. L.; Gibson, J. M. In-situ observations of classical grain growth mechanisms during sintering of copper nanoparticles on (001) copper. Applied Physics Letters (1997), 71(12), 1631-1633

Education

B. S. Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N. C.
Ph.D. Department of Materials Science and Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Advisor: J. Murray Gibson. Fannie and John Hertz Fellowship
Thesis: “In-situ Studies of Copper Nano-particles Using a Novel Tandem Ultra-High Vacuum Particle Production Chamber Transmission Electron Microscope”

Past professional positions

Applied Materials and Technology and Matrix Integrated Systems, Senior Process Engineer