The Process of Automatically Fabricating Polymer Microfluidic Chips

Author

Wang, Xiaodong ; Ma, Liqun ; Luo, Yi ; Liu, Chong ; Wang, Liding

Author_Institution

Key Lab. for Precision & Non-traditional Machining Technol., Dalian Univ. of Technol.

Volume

2

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

8402

Lastpage

8406

Abstract

The key techniques for fabrication of polymer microfluidic chips are outlined, including hot-embossing processing technique, fabrication of metal mold-insert with micro structures. The manufacturing process and process control towards the batch production of polymer microfluidic chips are discussed. The developed hot-embossing machines and the prototype automatic fabrication system for plastic microfluidic chips are introduced, some problems for automatic fabrication were solved, and solutions are given

Keywords

batch production systems; electronics industry; embossing; microfluidics; process control; automatic polymer microfluidic chip fabrication; batch production; hot-embossing machines; manufacturing process; metal mold-insert; microstructures; plastic microfluidic chips; process control; Chemical analysis; Educational technology; Embossing; Fabrication; Microfluidics; Plastics; Polymers; Process control; Temperature; Thermal stresses; Automatic fabrication; Hot-embossing; Polymer microfluidic chip; Process control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control and Automation, 2006. WCICA 2006. The Sixth World Congress on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0332-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCICA.2006.1713616

Filename

1713616