Femtosecond laser ablation of polymeric substrates for the fabrication of microfluidic channels

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 257, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 6243-6250

  Suriano, Raffaella ^a   Kuznetsov, Arseniy ^b   Eaton, Shane M ^c   Kiyan, Roman ^b   Cerullo, Giulio ^a   Osellame, Roberto ^c   Chichkov, Boris N ^b   Levi, Marinella ^a   Turri, Stefano ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ablation; Femtosecond laser; Microfluidics; Polymer

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; COLORIMETRIC ANALYSIS; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ESTERS; FABRICATION; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER ABLATION; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; POLYMERS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CYCLIC OLEFIN POLYMERS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); THERMAL DEPOLYMERIZATION; THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER; THERMOPLASTIC POLYMERIC MATERIALS;

LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING;

EID: 79953029406     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2011.02.053     Document Type: Article

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