Soft lithography using perfluorinated polyether molds and PRINT technology for fabrication of 3-D arrays on glass substrates

Author(s):  
Kenton B. Wiles ◽  
Natasha S. Wiles ◽  
Kevin P. Herlihy ◽  
Benjamin W. Maynor ◽  
Jason P. Rolland ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Nazmul Huda ◽  
Prashanta Dutta

Platinum microelectrodes become essential components in microfluidic devices for separation, pumping, sensing, and other bio-analyses. Due to their chemical inertness, several research groups have developed microfluidic devices with integrated platinum electrodes on silicon, quartz, or glass substrates. However, no techniques have been reported so far for depositing platinum electrodes in polymeric microchannels. In this study, a novel fabrication scheme for forming integrated microelectrodes in a poly-dimethyl-siloxane (PDMS) microchip is described. The electrode fabrication technique consists of photolithography, thermal processing, sequential sputtering of titanium and platinum and stripping off photoresist, while soft-lithography is used to form the microfluidic channels on PDMS. This approach facilitates precise positioning of the electrodes with a micron-sized gap between them, and it can be used for both low and high aspect ratio channels. The platinum electrodes, formed on the PDMS channel surface, demonstrated very good interfacial adhesion with the substrate due to the use of a very thin titanium layer between the platinum and PDMS. The surface roughness of the electrodes was found around ±50 nm.


2000 ◽  
Vol 628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Clarner ◽  
Michael J. Lochhead

ABSTRACTOrganically modified silica gels and dye-doped silica gels have been patterned into micrometer-scale structures on a substrate using micro molding in capillaries (MIMIC). This approach is from a class of elastomeric stamping and molding techniques collectively known as soft lithography. Soft lithography and sol-gel processing share attractive features in that they are relatively benign processes performed at ambient conditions, which makes both techniques compatible with a wide variety of organic molecules, molecular assemblies, and biomolecules. The combination of sol-gel and soft lithography, therefore, holds enormous promise as a tool for microfabrication of materials with optical, chemical, or biological functionality that are not readily patterned with conventional methods. This paper describes our investigation of micro-patterned organic-inorganic hybrid materials containing indicator dyes for microfluidic sensor applications. Reversible colorimetric pH sensing via entrapped reagents is demonstrated in a prototype microfluidic sensor element. Patterned structures range from one to tens of micrometers in cross-section and are up to centimeters in length. Fundamental chemical processing issues associated with mold filling, cracking and sensor stability are discussed.


2002 ◽  
Vol 719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myoung-Woon Moon ◽  
Kyang-Ryel Lee ◽  
Jin-Won Chung ◽  
Kyu Hwan Oh

AbstractThe role of imperfections on the initiation and propagation of interface delaminations in compressed thin films has been analyzed using experiments with diamond-like carbon (DLC) films deposited onto glass substrates. The surface topologies and interface separations have been characterized by using the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and the Focused Ion Beam (FIB) imaging system. The lengths and amplitudes of numerous imperfections have been measured by AFM and the interface separations characterized on cross sections made with the FIB. Chemical analysis of several sites, performed using Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), has revealed the origin of the imperfections. The incidence of buckles has been correlated with the imperfection length.


Author(s):  
Yeeu-Chang Lee ◽  
Chin-Chang Yu ◽  
Ruey-Yih Tsai ◽  
Jen-Chung Hsiao ◽  
Ching-Hao Chen ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 2461-2469
Author(s):  
S. R. Gosavi ◽  
K. B. Chaudhari

CdS thin films were deposited on glass substrates by using successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) method at room temperature. The effect of SILAR growth cycles on structural, morphological, optical and electrical properties of the films has been studied.  The thickness of the deposited film is measured by employing weight difference method. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) studies showed that all the films exhibit polycrystalline nature and are covered well with glass substrates. The values of average crystallite size were found to be 53 nm, 58 nm, 63 nm and 71 nm corresponding to the thin films deposited with 30, 40, 50 and 60 SILAR growth cycles respectively. From the UV–VIS spectra of the deposited thin films, it was seen that both the absorption properties and energy bandgap of the films changes with increasing number of SILAR growth cycles. A decrease of electrical resistivity has been observed with increasing SILAR growth cycle. 


2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 316-320
Author(s):  
Hiroshi IKEDA ◽  
Yoichi AKAGAMI ◽  
Michio UNEDA ◽  
Osamu OHNISHI ◽  
Syuhei KUROKAWA ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
Dahyunir Dahlan

Copper oxide particles were electrodeposited onto indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass substrates. Electrodeposition was carried out in the electrolyte containing cupric sulphate, boric acid and glucopone. Both continuous and pulse currents methods were used in the process with platinum electrode, saturated calomel electrode (SCE) and ITO electrode as the counter, reference and working electrode respectively. The deposited particles were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It was found that, using continuous current deposition, the deposited particles were mixture of Cu2O and CuO particles. By adding glucopone in the electrolyte, particles with spherical shapes were produced. Electrodeposition by using pulse current, uniform cubical shaped Cu2O particles were produced


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Chandar Shekar B ◽  
Ranjit Kumar R ◽  
Dinesh K.P.B ◽  
Sulana Sundar C ◽  
Sunnitha S ◽  
...  

Thin films of poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) were prepared on pre-cleaned glass substrates by Dip Coating Method. FTIR spectrum was used to identify the functional groups present in the prepared films. The vibrational peaks observed at 1260 cm-1 and 851 cm-1 are assigned to C–C stretching and CH rocking of PVA.The characteristic band appearing at 1432 cm-1 is assigned to C–H bend of CH2 of PVA. The thickness of the prepared thin films were measured by using an electronic thickness measuring instrument (Tesatronic-TTD20) and cross checked by gravimetric method. XRD spectra indicated the amorphous nature of the films.Surface morphology of the coated films was studied by scanning electron microscope (SEM). The surface revealed no pits and pin holes on the surface. The observed surface morphology indicated that these films could be used as dielectric layer in organic thin film transistors and as drug delivery system for wound healing.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (34) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Bushra A. Hasan

Lead selenide PbSe thin films of different thicknesses (300, 500, and 700 nm) were deposited under vacuum using thermal evaporation method on glass substrates. X-ray diffraction measurements showed that increasing of thickness lead to well crystallize the prepared samples, such that the crystallite size increases while the dislocation density decreases with thickness increasing. A.C conductivity, dielectric constants, and loss tangent are studied as function to thickness, frequency (10kHz-10MHz) and temperatures (293K-493K). The conductivity measurements confirm confirmed that hopping is the mechanism responsible for the conduction process. Increasing of thickness decreases the thermal activation energy estimated from Arhinus equation is found to decrease with thickness increasing. The increase of thickness lead to reduce the polarizability α while the increasing of temperature lead to increase α.


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