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Figure 1: Bright field transmission electron micrographs HSQ structures exposed at 200 keV. The HSQ thickness was 10-15 nm and it was on top of a 10-nm-thick Si3N4 membrane. The linear-dose was 30 nC/cm (20,000 electrons/nm). The exposure step size was 1-2 nm. (A), (B), and (C) show the minimum feature sizes obtained by this method. (D) shows an isolated 3-nm-wide structure over a micron long. (E) and (F) show 10- and  5-nm-half-pitch dot array of HSQ. The doses were 15 and 9 fC/dot, respectively.