一种新颖的混合图案化技术,通过整合热压印和反向紫外光刻来制造微纳通道。
A novel hybrid patterning technique for micro and nanochannel fabrication by integrating hot embossing and inverse UV photolithography.
机构信息
Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Technology and Systems of Liaoning Province, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
出版信息
Lab Chip. 2014 May 7;14(9):1614-21. doi: 10.1039/c3lc51369f. Epub 2014 Mar 20.
Nanofluidic devices with micro and nanostructures are becoming increasingly important for biological and chemical applications. However, the majority of the present fabrication methods suffer from a low pattern transfer quality during the simultaneous embossing of the microscale and nanoscale patterns into a thermoplastic polymer due to insufficient polymer flow. In this work, a novel hybrid patterning technique, integrating hot embossing and inverse ultraviolet (UV) photolithography, is developed to fabricate micro and nanochannels with a high replication precision of the SU-8 layer. The influence of embossing temperature and time on the replication precision was investigated. The effect of UV lithography parameters on the micro and nanochannel pattern was analyzed. To improve the SU-8 bonding strength, the influence of the O2 plasma treatment parameters on the water contact angles of the exposed and unexposed SU-8 layer were studied. A complete SU-8 nanofluidic chip with 130 nm wide and 150 nm deep nanochannels was successfully fabricated with a replication precision of 99.5%. Compared with most of the current processing methods, this fabrication technique has great potential due to its low cost and high pattern transfer quality of the SU-8 micro and nanochannels.
具有微纳结构的纳流控器件在生物和化学应用中变得越来越重要。然而,由于聚合物的流动性不足,目前大多数制造方法在同时将微尺度和纳米尺度图案压印到热塑性聚合物中时,图案转移质量较差。在这项工作中,开发了一种新颖的混合图案化技术,将热压印和反向紫外(UV)光刻相结合,以制造具有高 SU-8 层复制精度的微纳米通道。研究了压印温度和时间对复制精度的影响。分析了 UV 光刻参数对微纳米通道图案的影响。为了提高 SU-8 的键合强度,研究了 O2 等离子体处理参数对曝光和未曝光 SU-8 层水接触角的影响。成功制造了具有 99.5%复制精度的完整 SU-8 纳流控芯片,其具有 130nm 宽和 150nm 深的纳米通道。与大多数当前的加工方法相比,由于其低成本和 SU-8 微纳通道的高质量图案转移,这种制造技术具有很大的潜力。