{"title":"Mechanical assembly and magnetic actuation of polydimethylsiloxane-iron composite interconnects for microfluidic systems","authors":"S. Jaffer, B. Gray, D. Sahota, M. Sjoerdsma","doi":"10.1117/12.764068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.764068","url":null,"abstract":"We present magnetically-actuated micromechanical interconnects for microfluidic applications fabricated in-house using PDMS-iron elastomer-ferromagnetic composites (EFCs). Interconnects are fluid-tight, interlocking cylindrical posts and holes whose assembly can be made easier by magnetically actuating the EFC cylinders via axial extension and radial contraction. Towards this goal, we demonstrate magnetic actuation of interconnect structures, and quantify the mechanical disassembly of PDMS-iron interconnects without an applied magnetic field. Previously, we showed the mechanical assembly and disassembly of hybrid combinations of non-magnetic SU-8, silicon, and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic interconnects. We fabricate EFCs for our interconnects by embedding iron microspheres (<63% by weight) in PDMS. We employed permanent magnets to create 0.045-0.065T constant fields, along with an optics test set-up that included a diode laser and magnification to quantify micron-sized deflections. The interconnects exhibited radial contractions of 3-12% and axial elongation of 2-11%. Without the magnetic field, disassembly forces of 36-71mN were measured by a controlled force linear actuator for PDMS-iron cylinders from PDMS and PDMS-iron holes. This work shows promise for radial contraction of cylinders for assembly with lower forces while maintaining high disassembly forces once the interconnects are assembled and the magnetic field is removed.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"6886 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130718433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MEMS reliability: coming of age","authors":"M. Douglass","doi":"10.1117/12.791010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.791010","url":null,"abstract":"In today's high-volume semiconductor world, one could easily take reliability for granted. As the MOEMS/MEMS industry continues to establish itself as a viable alternative to conventional manufacturing in the macro world, reliability can be of high concern. Currently, there are several emerging market opportunities in which MOEMS/MEMS is gaining a foothold. Markets such as mobile media, consumer electronics, biomedical devices, and homeland security are all showing great interest in microfabricated products. At the same time, these markets are among the most demanding when it comes to reliability assurance. To be successful, each company developing a MOEMS/MEMS device must consider reliability on an equal footing with cost, performance and manufacturability. What can this maturing industry learn from the successful development of DLP technology, air bag accelerometers and inkjet printheads? This paper discusses some basic reliability principles which any MOEMS/MEMS device development must use. Examples from the commercially successful and highly reliable Digital Micromirror Device complement the discussion.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133895052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connecting interface for modularization of digital microfluidics","authors":"Hanping Yang, S. Fan, W. Hsu","doi":"10.1117/12.765652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.765652","url":null,"abstract":"Here, interconnection technique to link digital microfluidic chips is proposed. Three kinds of digital microfluidic modules with connecting interface, including flexible module and two types of connector modules, are designed and fabricated. Since these modules are fabricated on a compliant polymer-based substrate (ITO PET), chip-to-chip droplet transportation even at different planes can be achieved by the proposed technique. A low-temperature fabrication process is developed for the polymer substrates, where the SU-8 acts as the insulator. Droplet transportation through electrowetting on curved surface is confirmed by testing on the bended flexible modules with different curvatures from 0 to 0.06 mm-1 at around 70 VAC. Then the droplet transportations between flexible and connector modules are investigated. It is found that the gap size between two modules and the sidewall profiles at interface affect the droplet transportation directly. For the gap size around 50μm with a smooth perpendicular sidewall profile, 80 VAC is shown to actuate droplet of 1.5 μl, 2.5 μl, or 3.5 μl to cross over the interface successfully.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"29 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114023959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precise open-loop control of MEMS deformable mirror shape","authors":"T. Bifano, J. Stewart, A. Diouf","doi":"10.1117/12.769492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769492","url":null,"abstract":"A new method is introduced for predicting control voltages that will generate a prescribed surface shape on a deformable mirror. The algorithm is based upon an analytical elastic model of the mirror membrane and an empirical electromechanical model of its actuators. It is computationally simple and inherently fast. Shapes at the limit of achievable mirror spatial frequencies with up to 1.5μm amplitudes have been achieved with less than 15nm RMS error.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124437035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Udalagama, S. F. Chan, S. Homhuan, A. Bettiol, T. Wohland, F. Watt
{"title":"Fabrication of integrated channel waveguides in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) using proton beam writing (PBW): applications for fluorescence detection in microfluidic channels","authors":"C. Udalagama, S. F. Chan, S. Homhuan, A. Bettiol, T. Wohland, F. Watt","doi":"10.1117/12.762885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762885","url":null,"abstract":"Proton beam writing (PBW) is a lithographic technique that utilizes MeV protons in a direct write mode to fabricate micro/nano features in suitable resist material (E.g PMMA, SU-8, silicon, Foturan). These micro/nano structures may be used in an electroplating step to yield robust metallic stamps/molds for the replication of the original and lends itself to the fabrication of micro/nano fluidic channels that are important components in devices such as biophotonic chips. Another feature of proton bombardment is its ability to induce an increase in refractive index along the ions path, in particular at the end of its range where there is substantial nuclear scattering. This allows PBW to directly write buried waveguides that can be accurately aligned with fluidic channels. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is an optically clear, biocompatible polymer that can be readily used with a mold (such as that created with PBW) and easily sealed so as to produce biophotonic chips containing micro/nano fluidic channels. This has lead us to favour PDMS as the base material for our work on the development of these biophotonic chips. The present work is concerned with the production of integrating channel waveguides in PDMS chips, so as to have a working device that may be used to detect fluorescently tagged biological samples. For this we have adopted two approaches, namely(1) directly embedding optical fibres in the polymer and (2) using PBW to directly write buried waveguides in the polymer.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128768498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurement of thin films and interfacial surface roughness using SWLI","authors":"M. Conroy","doi":"10.1117/12.762824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762824","url":null,"abstract":"Interferometry is now an established technique for the measurement of surface topography. It has the capability of combining sub-nanometre resolution, high measurement speed with high repeatability. A very useful extension to its capability is the ability to measure thick and thin films on a local scale. For films with thicknesses in excess of 1-2 μm (depending on refractive index), the SWLI interaction with the film leads to the formation of localised fringes, each corresponding to a surface interface. It is relatively trivial to locate the positions of these envelope maxima and therefore determine the film thickness, assuming the refractive index is known. For thin films (with thicknesses ~20 nm to ~2 μm, again depending on the refractive index), the SWLI interaction leads to the formation of a single interference maxima. In this context, it is appropriate to describe the thin film structure in terms of optical admittances; it is this regime that is addressed through the introduction of a new function, the 'helical conjugate field' (HCF) function. This function may be considered as providing a 'signature' of the multilayer measured so that through optimization, the thin film multilayer may be determined on a local scale.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117146046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation and interferometer results of MEMS deformable mirrors","authors":"B. Fernández, J. Kubby","doi":"10.1117/12.766886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.766886","url":null,"abstract":"Various types of large stroke actuators for Adaptive Optics (AO) were simulated individually and as part of a mirror system consisting of actuators bonded to face plates with different boundary conditions. The actuators and faceplate were fabricated using a high aspect ratio process that enables the fabrication of 3-dimensional Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) devices. This paper will review simulation results along with measurements of the displacement of the actuators utilizing a white-light interferometer. Both simulations and interferometer scans have shown the ability of the actuators to achieve displacements of 1/3 of the initial gap between the spring layer and the counter electrode.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126216111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Premachandran, A. Khairyanto, K. Chen, J. Singh
{"title":"A biocompatible miniaturized package housing for a 3D micromirror-based optical bioprobe for OCT imaging application","authors":"C. Premachandran, A. Khairyanto, K. Chen, J. Singh","doi":"10.1117/12.762949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762949","url":null,"abstract":"A biocompatible housing for an optical bio-probe is developed for OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) imaging application. Silicon micro machined 3D mirror is used to steer the optical beam in to the sample of interest. A Grin lens fiber assembly is used to couple the light from the light source to the micro mirror. A Silicon Optical bench (SiOB) is used to integrate the optical components and the 3D mirror. The integrated assembly is housed in a poly carbonate housing with AR (anti reflection) coating on the inner and outer sides of the housing wall. Micro injection molding method is used t o fabricate a miniaturized probe housing which is transparent to 1300nm. Miniaturized housing is tested in an OCT setup and the captured image is processed.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125150678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Mukherjee, M. Kiziroglou, A. Holmes, E. Yeatman
{"title":"MEMS post-processing of MPW dies using BSOI carrier wafers","authors":"A. Mukherjee, M. Kiziroglou, A. Holmes, E. Yeatman","doi":"10.1117/12.763217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.763217","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-project-wafer (MPW) services provide an economical route for prototyping of new electronic circuit designs. However, addition of MEMS functionality to MPW circuits by post-processing (also known as MEMS-last processing) is difficult and inefficient because MPW typically yields individual dies. One solution to this problem is to embed the MPW dies in a carrier wafer prior to MEMS processing. We have developed a process which allows 300 μm-thick CMOS dies to be embedded in a BSOI (bonded silicon-on-insulator) carrier prior to low-temperature processing for integration of metal MEMS. Deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) with an STS Multiplex ICP etcher is used to form cavities in the device layer of a BSOI wafer. By adjusting the passivation and etching cycles, the DRIE process has been optimized to produce near-vertical sidewalls when stopping on the buried oxide layer. The cavity sizes are closely matched to the die dimensions to ensure placement of the dies to within ±15 μm. Dies are placed in all the cavities, and then a photoresist layer is deposited by spin-coating and patterned to provide access to the required IC contact pads. The photoresist has the dual role of securing the dies and also planarizing the top surface of the carrier. After an appropriate baking cycle this layer provides a suitable base for multi-level electroplating or other low-temperature MEMS processing.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122065505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microfabrication of an integrated optical cell counter for cytometry application","authors":"Guocheng Shao, Wanjun Wang","doi":"10.1117/12.778332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.778332","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design and fabrication of an integrated cell counter for a MEMS flow cytometer. The imbedded out-of-plane micro lens in the cell counter is used to focus the fluorescent or scattering light emitting from the dyed cells into the output fiber to improve the optical detection efficiency. Both the optical cell counter device with imbedded micro-lens and the hydro-focusing unit of the micro flow cytometer were fabricated using a process based on UV lithography of SU-8 negative-tone photoresist. A novel microfabrication technology based on tilted UV-lithography and controlled exposure dosage and development time was performed to produce the out-of-plane micro lens. Out-of-plane micro lens with various pad sizes and focal lengths can be fabricated by carefully controlling the fabrication process. The microlens and the hydrofocusing unit were fabricated using the same mask. High alignment accuracy can therefore be achieved without any post-fabrication alignment processes.","PeriodicalId":130723,"journal":{"name":"SPIE MOEMS-MEMS","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133211680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}