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Microfabrication via Photolithography
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2023
The fabrication of BioMEM devices is often done using a microfabrication technique called photolithography. This widely used method utilizes light to transfer a pattern onto a silicon wafer, and provides the basis for the fabrication of many types of BioMEM devices. This video presents the photolithography technique, shows how the process is performed in the cleanroom, and introduces some applications of the process.
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Multi-step Variable Height Photolithography for Valved Multilayer Microfluidic Devices
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2017
Multilayer microfluidic devices often involve the fabrication of master molds with complex geometries for functionality. This article presents a complete protocol for multi-step photolithography with valves and variable height features tunable to any application. As a demonstration, we fabricate a microfluidic droplet generator capable of producing hydrogel beads.
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Polymeric Microneedle Array Fabrication by Photolithography
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2015
Here, we present a protocol describing a mold-free fabrication process of the polymeric microneedles by photolithography.
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Fabrication of Micropatterned Hydrogels for Neural Culture Systems using Dynamic Mask Projection Photolithography
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2011
Simple techniques are described for the rapid production of microfabricated neural culture systems using a digital micromirror device for dynamic mask projection lithography on regular cell culture substrates. These culture systems may be more representative of natural biological architecture, and the techniques described could be adapted for numerous applications.
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A Method to Fabricate Disconnected Silver Nanostructures in 3D
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2012
Femtosecond-laser direct-writing is frequently used to create three-dimensional (3D) patterns in polymers and glasses. However, patterning metals in 3D remains a challenge. We describe a method for fabricating silver nanostructures embedded inside a polymer matrix using a femtosecond laser centered at 800 nm.
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The photomask controls where ultraviolet light reaches the photoresist, so its geometric design determines the exposed and unexposed regions on the substrate. Chemical development then converts that exposure pattern into areas that are removed or retained. This sequence preserves the intended geometry for subsequent fabrication and allows a designed light pattern to guide construction of a microscale feature.
Photoresist records the ultraviolet exposure pattern on the substrate and provides a temporary material template for later processing. After exposure, chemical development reveals the selected regions by removing or retaining parts of the resist. Because subsequent etching or deposition follows this patterned layer, the photoresist connects the optical exposure step with formation of the final physical structure.
Changing the photomask changes the geometric arrangement transferred to the substrate because the mask determines the spatial pattern of ultraviolet exposure. After development, the altered arrangement appears as different retained or removed regions and can guide etching or deposition. In bioengineering, mask design therefore helps set the geometry of channels, scaffolds, sensors, or cell-patterning platforms.
Once development reveals the selected resist regions, the pattern controls a later fabrication operation. Etching transfers the design by removing material, while deposition uses the patterned arrangement to introduce material in a controlled configuration. This post-development step changes a light-defined resist image into a physical feature that can function in a microfluidic, sensing, or tissue-engineering device.
Applications include microfluidic channels, biosensors, tissue-engineering scaffolds, and cell-patterning platforms. These systems benefit from deliberately shaped microscale features rather than unstructured surfaces. The same patterning approach can therefore support fluid handling, sensing, scaffold construction, or controlled cell organization, making it useful across device fabrication and studies of biological behavior.
Defined microscale features give researchers control over the physical environment in which biological processes occur. In microfluidics, geometry helps regulate fluid flow; in cell-patterning platforms, it helps organize cells; and in tissue-engineering scaffolds, it contributes to a designed structural setting. These controlled environments make it possible to study biological behavior under more precisely specified conditions.