CN107150996B - Manufacturing method of alignment bonding structure used in micro-fluidic system - Google Patents

Manufacturing method of alignment bonding structure used in micro-fluidic system Download PDF

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CN107150996B
CN107150996B CN201610121968.9A CN201610121968A CN107150996B CN 107150996 B CN107150996 B CN 107150996B CN 201610121968 A CN201610121968 A CN 201610121968A CN 107150996 B CN107150996 B CN 107150996B
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The invention discloses a method for manufacturing an alignment bonding structure in a microfluidic system, which fixes a polymer by using a hard light-transmitting material, and further realizes the alignment bonding of the polymer and a substrate material by aligning and bonding the hard light-transmitting material and the substrate material, thereby avoiding the problem of inaccurate alignment bonding caused by the material of the polymer and improving the alignment precision of bonding. The process is simple, and the bonding efficiency is improved.

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Manufacturing method of alignment bonding structure used in micro-fluidic system
Technical Field
The present application relates to the field of bonding technologies of microfluidic systems, and in particular, to a method for manufacturing an alignment bonding structure in a microfluidic system.
Background
Since the 90 s of the 20 th century, microfluidics has played an increasingly important role as analytical systems, biomedical devices, chemical and biochemical tools, mainly to achieve miniaturization and integration of biochemical related analytical equipment and to improve portability thereof. Bonding is a key technical link in microfluidic fabrication, and the dimensions of the effective fluid channel and the fluid action part in the microfluidic system are in the micron order in at least one dimension, which has high requirements on the precision of the bonding process.
With the development of micro-machining technology, polymer-based microfluidic systems are receiving more and more attention, and the research on the bonding technology of polymers and substrate materials such as polymers, metals, silicon wafers, glass, quartz and the like has very important significance. In general, in bonding, the polymer contains microstructures, and the substrate does not contain microstructures, so that no alignment problem exists in bonding the polymer and the substrate. When the substrate also contains microstructures, the alignment bonding of the polymer and the substrate and its high precision requirement become problems to be solved. Due to the material characteristics of the polymer material, structural deformation caused by a bonding method and the like, the polymer material is prone to the problem of inaccurate alignment bonding in the manual alignment bonding process of the polymer material and the substrate and the semi-automatic alignment bonding process of the polymer material by means of an auxiliary observation tool.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a manufacturing method of an alignment bonding structure used in a micro-fluidic system, which aims to solve the technical problem of inaccurate alignment bonding.
In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing an alignment bonding structure in a microfluidic system, the method comprising:
fixing the polymer by using a hard light-transmitting material;
and aligning and bonding the hard light-transmitting material and a substrate material to realize the alignment bonding of the polymer and the substrate material.
Preferably, one side of the polymer has a microstructure.
Preferably, the fixing of the polymer by using the hard light-transmitting material specifically includes:
and fixing the side without the microstructures in the polymer on the hard light-transmitting material.
Preferably, the hard light-transmitting material is a substrate having optical transparency, and can transmit light in any wavelength range.
Preferably, the hard light-transmitting material includes: glass, or quartz, or sapphire, or silicon wafer, or gallium nitride.
Preferably, the polymer comprises polydimethylsiloxane PDMS, or polymethylmethacrylate PMMA, or polystyrene PS.
Preferably, before the aligning and bonding the hard light-transmitting material and the base material, the method further comprises: and carrying out bonding pretreatment on the polymer.
Preferably, the substrate material comprises a metal or a polymeric material.
In the embodiment of the present invention, an alignment bonding structure for use in a microfluidic system is provided, where the alignment bonding structure is a sandwich structure, and the sandwich structure is prepared by the method according to the above technical solution.
Through one or more technical schemes of the invention, the invention has the following beneficial effects or advantages:
the invention provides an alignment bonding structure used in a microfluidic system and a manufacturing method thereof. The process is simple, and the bonding efficiency is improved.
In addition, the alignment bonding structure disclosed by the invention is simple in structure and is suitable for the alignment of bonding of polymers of various materials and microstructure patterns and a base material.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an alignment bonding structure in an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating an implementation process of a method for manufacturing an alignment bonding structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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The polymer has the advantages of light transmission, easy processing, low cost and the like, so that the polymer becomes a common material for preparing a microfluidic system. At the same time, however, the polymer is easily deformed by factors such as temperature and pressure, so that the problem of inaccurate alignment bonding is easily caused in the alignment bonding process. In this regard, the present invention proposes to fix a polymer (e.g., glass, quartz, sapphire, etc.) using a hard light-transmitting material, and to replace the bonding of the polymer and the base material with an aligned bonding of the hard light-transmitting material and the base material.
In order to make the present application more clearly understood by those skilled in the art to which the present application pertains, the following detailed description of the present application is made with reference to the accompanying drawings by way of specific embodiments.
The invention firstly introduces an alignment bonding structure used in a microfluidic system, which facilitates alignment in bonding and improves alignment efficiency. Referring to fig. 1, the alignment bonding structure is a "sandwich" structure, which is sequentially composed of a rigid light-transmitting material, a polymer, and a base material. The side of the polymer without the microstructure is fixed with the hard light-transmitting material, and the alignment of the polymer and the substrate is realized by adjusting the alignment of the hard light-transmitting material and the substrate by utilizing the optical light-transmitting property and the non-deformability of the hard light-transmitting material.
The following embodiments will be described with respect to the above-described method for fabricating the alignment bonding structure.
Referring to fig. 2, a process diagram of the manufacturing method of the alignment bonding structure according to the present invention is shown.
Bonding refers to a technique of bonding two homogeneous or heterogeneous semiconductor materials with clean surfaces and flat atomic levels into a whole by directly combining the materials through surface cleaning and activating treatment under certain conditions and through van der waals force, molecular force and even atomic force.
And alignment bonding is one process. The alignment bonding structure is a structure obtained by using alignment bonding.
Specifically, the alignment bonding is an alignment process for the bonding relative position of two bonded objects in the bonding process, and further provides a manufacturing process applied to the alignment problem of the bonding process.
The alignment bonding process comprises the steps of fixing a polymer on a hard light-transmitting material, selecting a bonding mode, carrying out bonding pretreatment, and implementing specific bonding treatment by aligning the hard light-transmitting material and a substrate material to realize alignment bonding.
Reference is now made to the detailed description.
And S1, fixing the polymer by using a hard light-transmitting material.
First, a hard light-transmitting material will be described.
The hard light-transmitting material specifically refers to a substrate having good optical transmittance (i.e., a substrate having optical transparency), such as glass, quartz, sapphire, a silicon wafer, gallium nitride, or the like. And it is not limited to visible light and may be light of any wavelength range, such as infrared light, ultraviolet light, and the like.
Polymers are commonly used polymeric materials in microfluidic systems, and the microstructure of the polymer is arbitrary.
The polymer in the present invention may be PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane). PDMS is commonly referred to as silicone as a high molecular organosilicon compound. Has optical transparency and is generally considered inert, non-toxic and non-flammable. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is the most widely used silicon-based organic polymer material.
In addition, the polymer in the present invention may be PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate). Optical-grade PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) is known as "plastic queen" because of its excellent light transmittance, electrical insulation, post-processability, and other wide applications. The PMMA high-performance optical-grade liquid crystal material is mainly applied to high-end markets such as liquid crystal display light guide plates, optical fiber materials, solar photovoltaic cells and the like.
In addition, the polymer may also be polystyrene PS.
Before the polymer is fixed by the hard light-transmitting material, the polymer is prepared. For example, a polymer sheet containing microstructures is prepared. In the preparation process, the polymer sheet containing the microstructure can be prepared by using methods such as SU-8 polymer molds, silicon-based molds and the like.
The prepared polymer has two sides, one side has a microstructure and the other side has no microstructure, and when the polymer is fixed by the hard light-transmitting material, the side without the microstructure of the polymer is fixed on the hard light-transmitting material.
For stable fixation, materials or objects with adhesive function such as adhesive can be used for fixation.
And S2, aligning and bonding the hard light-transmitting material and a substrate material, thereby realizing the alignment bonding of the polymer and the substrate material.
The base material will be described first.
The substrate material may or may not contain microstructures.
And for the base material, it may be any one of metal and polymer material. Of course, the substrate material may be a silicon wafer or the like.
Before the hard light-transmitting material is aligned and bonded with the substrate material, the polymer needs to be subjected to bonding pretreatment. The bonding pretreatment specifically comprises the following steps: a treatment is applied to the polymer or the substrate material, or both, to promote bonding. The bonding pretreatment differs depending on the specific bonding method. Such as hydroxylated polymer surfaces, spin-on adhesives, and the like.
When the hard light-transmitting material is aligned with the base material, the surface of the hard light-transmitting material to which the polymer is fixed is aligned with the base material.
Aligning and bonding the hard light-transmitting material with a base material actually comprises two parts, namely aligning the hard light-transmitting material with the base material; and bonding the hard light-transmitting material with a base material.
In aligning the hard light-transmitting material with the base material, direct alignment may be performed using an alignment mark, a pattern, or the like. The alignment marks may be cross-shaped, rectangular, square, numeric, etc.
When the hard light-transmitting material is bonded with the substrate material, a specific bonding method is adopted to perform corresponding bonding treatment. The alignment bonding in the present invention does not limit a bonding method such as a surface modification bonding method, an adhesive bonding, and the like.
The process of the present invention is illustrated below by means of specific examples, but it should be noted that the process of the present invention is not limited thereto.
Example 1: and (3) aligning and bonding the patterned PDMS and the patterned Au.
(1) Preparing graphical PDMS containing a microstructure, injecting a commercialized PDMS raw material into an SU-8 polymer mold of the microstructure, and curing for a certain time according to commercial instructions to obtain the required PDMS sheet.
(2) The PDMS sheet was fixed to a glass plate, and a liquid PDMS (liquid PDMS is a kind of adhesive) was spin-coated on the glass plate, and the PDMS sheet was placed on the liquid PDMS and cured according to the PDMS usage instructions.
(3) And sputtering patterned Au with a nanometer thickness on a quartz plate, wherein the quartz is used as a substrate of a non-patterned part on the PDMS, and the patterned Au is used as a substrate of the patterned PDMS.
(4) The bonding method of PDMS and Au is realized by adopting PDMS as an adhesive, and the bonding pretreatment of PDMS coating is carried out on a PDMS sheet.
(5) And aligning the glass sheet with the patterned Au on the silicon wafer by setting an alignment mark, so that the patterns of the patterned PDMS and the patterned Au are aligned.
(6) And curing the adhesive PDMS to realize bonding.
Through one or more embodiments of the present invention, the present invention has the following advantageous effects or advantages:
the invention provides an alignment bonding structure used in a microfluidic system and a manufacturing method thereof. The process is simple, and the bonding efficiency is improved.
In addition, the alignment bonding structure disclosed by the invention is simple in structure and is suitable for the alignment of bonding of polymers of various materials and microstructure patterns and a base material.
While the preferred embodiments of the present application have been described, additional variations and modifications in those embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the application.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is intended to include such modifications and variations as well.

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1. A method of fabricating an alignment bonding structure for use in a microfluidic system, the method comprising:
fixing the polymer by using a hard light-transmitting material;
aligning and bonding the hard light-transmitting material and a substrate material to realize the alignment bonding of the polymer and the substrate material;
prior to said aligning and bonding said rigid light transmissive material with a base material, said method further comprising: carrying out bonding pretreatment on the polymer; the bonding pretreatment specifically comprises the following steps: treatment of the polymer or substrate material, or both, to promote bonding; the bonding pretreatment is different according to different specific bonding methods;
the substrate material comprises a metal or polymer material; the base material contains microstructures;
one side of the polymer is provided with a microstructure; the microstructure contained in the polymer has arbitrariness;
the fixing of the polymer by using the hard light-transmitting material specifically comprises the following steps: fixing one side of the polymer without the microstructures on the hard light-transmitting material;
the hard light-transmitting material is a substrate with optical light-transmitting property, and can transmit light in any wavelength range;
the hard light-transmitting material comprises: quartz, or sapphire, or silicon wafers, or gallium nitride.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the polymer comprises Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), or Polystyrene (PS).
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