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Fabrication of 3D microfluidic structures inside glass by femtosecond laser micromachining

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Femtosecond lasers have opened up new avenues in materials processing due to their unique characteristics of ultrashort pulse widths and extremely high peak intensities. One of the most important features of femtosecond laser processing is that a femtosecond laser beam can induce strong absorption in even transparent materials due to nonlinear multiphoton absorption. This makes it possible to directly create three-dimensional (3D) microfluidic structures in glass that are of great use for fabrication of biochips. For fabrication of the 3D microfluidic structures, two technical approaches are being attempted. One of them employs femtosecond laser-induced internal modification of glass followed by wet chemical etching using an acid solution (Femtosecond laser-assisted wet chemical etching), while the other one performs femtosecond laser 3D ablation of the glass in distilled water (liquid-assisted femtosecond laser drilling). This paper provides a review on these two techniques for fabrication of 3D micro and nanofluidic structures in glass based on our development and experimental results.

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  1. Laser Technology Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

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Sugioka, K., Cheng, Y. Fabrication of 3D microfluidic structures inside glass by femtosecond laser micromachining. Appl. Phys. A 114, 215–221 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-013-8107-3

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