LUO Yi, WANG Xiao-dong, YANG Fan, et al. Variable temperature quasi-creep experiment for fabrication of microfluidic chip using Cyclo-olefin Polymer (COP)[J]. Optics and precision engineering, 2007, 15(7): 1090-1095.
LUO Yi, WANG Xiao-dong, YANG Fan, et al. Variable temperature quasi-creep experiment for fabrication of microfluidic chip using Cyclo-olefin Polymer (COP)[J]. Optics and precision engineering, 2007, 15(7): 1090-1095.DOI:
A hot embossing method is used to fabricate Cyclo-olefin Polymer (COP) microfluidic chip in this paper. Since temperature is the most important parameter in hot embossing process
the variable temperature quasi-creep experiment is set up to study the viscoelastic character of COP for determination of the working temperature. From a point of temperature below COP’s (
T
g
) temperature
applying the embossing working pressure
the temperature-deformation curve at slow temperature rising speed(1.5 ℃/min) is obtained. According to this curve
the hot embossing of microstructure under embossing reference temperature (
T
r
) has a high accuracy and low substrate deformatiom. Experiments show that average duplication precision is 97.6% in width and 94.3% in depth. Electrophoresis and DNA separation experiments have been done on fabricated COP chip
which shows that COP chip has excellent biologic compatibility and is suitable for biochemical analysis.