Reduction of surface roughness for optical quality microfluidic devices in PMMA and COC

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Ogilvie, I R G ^a   Sieben, V J ^a   Floquet, C F A ^a   Zmijan, R ^a   Mowlem, M C ^a   Morgan, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONDING METHODS; CHANNEL WALL; CYCLIC OLEFIN COPOLYMERS; FABRICATION PROCESS; MICRO MILLING; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; NANOMETRES; NOVEL SOLVENTS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL QUALITIES; OPTICAL QUALITY SURFACES; POLYMER MICROFLUIDICS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; RAPID PROTOTYPING TOOL;

ESTERS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; METAL ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; OLEFINS; POLYMERS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 77958469189     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/20/6/065016     Document Type: Article

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