Adhesive transfer soft lithography: Low-Cost and flexible rapid prototyping of microfluidic devices

Micro and Nanosystems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-49

  Jeong, Seung Hee ^a   Hjort, Klas ^a   Wu, Zhigang ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adhesive transfer; Isolated structure replica; Microfluidic device; Rapid prototyping; Soft lithography; Tape transfer lithography

Indexed keywords

FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

ADHESIVE TRANSFER; CONVENTIONAL PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; ISOLATED STRUCTURES; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; MICRO-FABRICATION TECHNIQUES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY;

LITHOGRAPHY;

EID: 84907499401     PISSN: 18764029     EISSN: 18764037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1876402906666140527000508     Document Type: Article

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