Microfluidic devices show great promise in providing automated methods to perform complex chemical and biological tasks quickly and at low cost. One major barrier to widespread use of microfluidic devices is currently the difficulty in mass-manufacturing them. To this end, this project has investigated rigid tool hot embossing as a mid-volume, flexible process to fabricate these devices. The purpose of the work detailed in this abstract is to develop a micro-embossing machine capable of achieving the necessary precision in forming parameters, which may be then to utilized in developing a closed-loop cycle-to-cycle control scheme to optimize and maintain part quality when the system is subject to disturbances.
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