Optimization of an optical disk manufacturing process for polymer microfluidic substrates by using the design of experiment methodology

Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Wu, Chun Han ^a,b   Hsu, Wen Syang ^a   Fan, Kuo Wei ^b   Lin, Yu Ling ^b   Lin, Yu Cheng ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Ritek Corporation   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Injection molding; Lithography electroforming micromolding; Microfluidic; Mold insert; Optical disk

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIE CASTING INSERTS; ELECTROFORMING; EXPERIMENTS; INJECTION MOLDING; MACHINE TOOLS; MANUFACTURE; MICROFLUIDICS; MIRRORS; MOLDS; OPTICAL DISK STORAGE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; CYCLE TIME; HIGH COSTS; IMPROVED METHODS; INJECTION PARAMETERS; LONG CYCLES; MASS PRODUCTION; MICROFLUIDIC STRUCTURES; MICROMOLDING; MOLD INSERT; MOLD INSERTS; MOLDING PARAMETERS; OPTICAL DISKS; POLYMER MICROFLUIDICS; VACUUM SYSTEM;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 80455150396     PISSN: 19325150     EISSN: 19325134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3491363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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