Fabrication and Characterization of Hollow Microneedle Array Using Diffraction UV Lithography

2021 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 DOI:10.1109/Transducers50396.2021.9495599

Jun Ying Tan, Albert Kim, J. Kim

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Hollow microneedles are extremely attractive to drug delivery domains with high demands from clinics and industry. However, its complicated fabrication processes have impeded its wide adoption. This paper presents a simple one-step fabrication method for hollow microneedles based on diffraction UV lithography and solid-liquid light propagation. The fabrication process utilizes bottom-up exposure of a liquid photosensitive resin through photomask patterns comprising a plurality of apertures. Hollow microneedles with various heights were fabricated in a range of 400 µm to 600 µm from a few minutes of UV exposure. The fabricated hollow microneedles were characterized with force-displacement tests showing a good tip strength of 0.35 N per single unit. A hollow fluidic test on a pig cadaver skin showed great potential for drug delivery. Also, batch fabrication with multiple height microneedles on a single substrate has demonstrated compatibility with the manufacturing process.

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