Fabrication of Transparent and Conductive Microdevices

摘要

Microsystems and microdevices can shrink a whole laboratory into a single chip. Due to its small size, such systems are cost effective, as they require small sample sizes and analysis time. Since the silicon-based microchip cannot provide optical transparency, there is a rising interest towards glass-based microchips and their possible applications where optical transparency during the analysis pro-cedure is of high importance. Our objective is to fabricate microdevices and sensors using laser di-rect writing and thin film deposition techniques. Applying these two methods to transparent materi-als will open new avenues in microdevice production by enabling the realization of transparent and conductive platforms.