In recent years, UV nano embossing (or imprinting) process has been widely used for mass replication of nano structures. Most
of the UV embossing machines use a UV transparent mold insert (e.g. quartz or glass). However, when a master of nano structures
of interest could be realized only in a UV non-transparent mold material, it would be desirable to have a UV embossing machine
which could be operated with such a UV non-transparent mold insert. In this regard, we have designed and manufactured a new
UV embossing system in such a way that UV non-transparent (e.g., metal or ceramic) mold inserts can also be used as the master
for the mass replication of nano structures. For the new UV embossing system, we fabricate several metal mold inserts: a nickel
electroformed mold insert having grating nano structures and two AAO (anodic aluminum oxide) mold inserts having dimple nano
structures and high-aspect-ratio nanopores. Finally, corresponding nano structures are successfully replicated via the UV
nano embossing machine developed in this study.