Surface Patterning
Plasma can be employed in various ways to facilitate surface patterning, which is often a required processing step for the fabrication of multilayer devices, such as solar cells, sensors, and microfluidic chips. Plasma treatment can enhance surface wettability of substrates and templates to improve pattern transfer during contact printing and self-assembly. Plasma etching can selectively remove polymer thin films and 2D organic materials through a masking layer and can also be used to tune the feature size of polymer templates for fabricating patterned nanostructure arrays. This page provides brief summaries on the application of plasma treatment for surface patterning.
Cyclic Olefin Polymer (COP) Microfluidics
Harrick Plasma Cyclic olefin polymers (COP) and copolymers (COC) have emerged as leading materials for advanced microfluidic and bioanalytical devices. Their popularity is driven by a unique combination of properties, including excellent optical transparency, low...
PMMA Microfluidics
Plasma cleaning and activation are the near-universal first step for working with PMMA in microfluidics. Exposing PMMA to oxygen or air plasma breaks surface polymer chains and grafts oxygen-containing groups such as hydroxyl and carboxyl onto the...
Silicone
Silicone elastomers are widely used in medical devices and soft robotic systems because of their flexibility, chemical stability, and ease of fabrication. Examples include breast implants, urinary catheters, neural shunts, pacemaker leads, tubing,...
Wunderlichips
For many microfluidic laboratories and early-stage companies, device fabrication can become a significant demand on time and resources. While many groups are capable of fabricating their own chips, doing so often requires dedicated cleanroom...
Kloe
Kloe France and Harrick Plasma equipment have powered breakthroughs in microfabrication, biochips, and lab-on-chip development. Across leading research institutes worldwide, scientists rely on this complementary pairing: Kloe France provides...