Hot embossing of micro devices

In today industrial, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology is commonly used. For commercialization of this technology, the 2 main criteria are low cost fabrication and also high volume production. Due to these 2 reasons, in recent years, there is a shift of products from silicon based m...

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Main Author: Yang, Yong Lin
Other Authors: Tor Shu Beng
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46379
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:In today industrial, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology is commonly used. For commercialization of this technology, the 2 main criteria are low cost fabrication and also high volume production. Due to these 2 reasons, in recent years, there is a shift of products from silicon based material to polymer based material. For the production of polymer based products, there is an increasing interest in hot embossing manufacturing process. In this project, a systematic way of optimizing the process parameters will be discussed. The polymeric substrate will be embossed with steel-machined mold insert and replication quality will be inspected using Scanning Electron Microscope.