CN111151317B - Method for manufacturing grating waveguide multi-micro-channel chip - Google Patents

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CN111151317B
CN111151317B CN202010053511.5A CN202010053511A CN111151317B CN 111151317 B CN111151317 B CN 111151317B CN 202010053511 A CN202010053511 A CN 202010053511A CN 111151317 B CN111151317 B CN 111151317B
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The invention provides a manufacturing method of a grating waveguide multi-micro-channel chip, which comprises the steps of providing a substrate, and forming a lower cladding on the substrate; forming a waveguide layer on the lower cladding layer; forming a grating waveguide with the waveguide layer; the grating waveguide comprises an exit grating; forming a first number of micro-channels to form a micro-fluidic group; the micro-channel penetrates through the upper cladding to expose the protective layer; the emergent grating is positioned below the micro-channel and used for guiding light into the micro-channel upwards along the vertical direction. Has the advantages that: has the advantages that: the structure of an integrated matrix of the optical waveguide and the multiple micro-channels is formed, the analysis performance higher than that of a traditional optical system is realized through the multiple micro-fluid channels and the large-scale matrixing optical waveguide, the chip-level on-chip optical detection and analysis system of the high-flux biological sample is quickly constructed, and the high-flux chip of biological detection under the micro-nano scale is realized.

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Method for manufacturing grating waveguide multi-micro-channel chip
Technical Field
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a grating waveguide multi-micro-channel chip, in particular to a method for manufacturing a grating waveguide multi-micro-channel biological detection chip.
Background
In modern biochemical analysis procedures, high-throughput detection devices have been widely used. Most of these devices use biochips based on microfluidic technology or microwell arrays, loaded in high performance optical systems, to perform analysis of biological samples of different sizes, such as nucleic acids, proteins, viruses, bacteria, cells, etc. The design of these optical systems is usually based on complex geometric optics, which is bulky, costly, requires optical alignment, and is costly to maintain.
In the precise medical age, miniaturized, high-performance, low-cost and mobile integrated analysis systems are of great concern. Especially, the concept of lab on chip has advanced a lot in manipulation of biological samples based on microfluidics through decades of development, but the real lab on chip system still lacks an integrated system for chip-level on-chip optical detection and analysis of high-throughput biological samples on micro-nano scale.
Disclosure of Invention
The device aims to solve a series of new requirements of miniaturization, mobility, integration and the like of the modern biochemical analysis instrument which is large in size and high in cost and meets the requirements of the precise medical era. The chip-level optical detection and analysis system is produced by an integrated circuit mass production process, the function of the traditional optical system is realized by integrating an optical device or an on-chip optical device, the traditional desktop or even large-scale optical system can be reduced to the chip size, the equal or even more excellent analysis performance is ensured, the high-flux chip-level optical detection and analysis integrated system of the biological sample under the micro-nano scale is realized, and the system cost is greatly reduced.
The invention provides a method for manufacturing a grating waveguide multi-micro-channel chip, which comprises the following steps:
step 1000: providing a substrate, and forming a lower cladding layer of silicon dioxide with the thickness of 2-3 mu m on the substrate;
step 2000: forming a waveguide layer on the lower cladding layer, the waveguide layer being a silicon nitride material;
step 3000: forming a first number of grating waveguide groups with the waveguide layer, the grating waveguide groups including a second number of grating waveguides; the grating waveguide comprises an exit grating;
step 4000: forming a silicon dioxide protective layer on the waveguide layer, wherein the protective layer is used for covering the grating waveguide and protecting the emergent grating; forming an upper cladding layer of a high polymer material with the thickness of 15-30 mu m on the protective layer;
step 5000: forming a first number of micro channels, wherein the grating waveguide groups and the micro channels are in one-to-one correspondence to form a first number of micro fluids so as to form a micro fluid group; the micro-channel penetrates through the upper cladding to expose the protective layer; the emergent grating is positioned below the micro-channel and used for guiding light into the micro-channel upwards along the vertical direction;
step 6000: forming a flow channel cover plate on the upper cladding layer, wherein the flow channel cover plate comprises a liquid injection port for injecting a solution containing the biomolecules to be detected into the micro-flow channel;
the width of the micro flow channel is 10-100 mu m.
Preferably, in step 3000, the thickness of the waveguide layer is 150nm-1000nm, photoresist is spin-coated on the waveguide layer to form grating waveguide masks parallel to each other, the waveguide layer is etched to form the grating waveguides parallel to each other, and the width of the grating waveguides is 300-600 nm.
Preferably, in step 3000, a photoresist is spin-coated on the waveguide layer to form a light guiding structure dividing mask, the waveguide layer is etched to form a light guiding structure, and the trunk light guide includes a second number of first light guides matched with the grating waveguides to be optically connected with the grating waveguides.
Preferably, in step 2000, the waveguide layer is formed by inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition at a deposition temperature of 25-150 ℃ with introduction of a reaction carrier gas including a silicon gas source and a nitrogen gas source.
Preferably, in step 5000, soft-baking the upper cladding, performing local exposure on a position of the upper cladding where the micro channel is to be formed, and forming the micro channel with a width of 10 to 100 μm penetrating through the upper cladding after hard-baking and developing.
Preferably, in step 2000, said waveguide layer is formed on said lower cladding layer to a thickness of 150nm to 1000 nm;
step 3000, spin-coating photoresist on the waveguide layer to form a grating waveguide mask, etching the waveguide layer to form a plurality of parallel horizontal portions of the grating waveguide; spin-coating photoresist again to form an incident grating and an exit grating mask, depositing to form the incident grating and the exit grating, forming the grating waveguide with the horizontal part of the grating waveguide, forming a plurality of coupling grating waveguides parallel to each other with the incident grating and the grating waveguide, wherein the width of the coupling grating waveguide is 300-600 nm;
in step 4000, the protective layer covers and protects the incident grating.
Preferably, in step 3000, the thickness of the waveguide layer is greater than 1000nm, photoresist is spin-coated on the waveguide layer to form a plurality of grating waveguide masks parallel to each other, the waveguide layer is etched to form a plurality of grating waveguides parallel to each other, and the widths of the grating waveguides are 300-600 nm.
Preferably, in step 1000, the lower cladding layer is formed on the substrate by using a chemical vapor deposition method or a thermal oxidation method.
Preferably, the high molecular polymer material is SU-8 resin, polyimide, polydimethylsilane, polyethylene or benzocyclobutene.
The invention provides a manufacturing method of a grating waveguide multi-micro-channel chip, which has the following beneficial effects: the structure of an integrated matrix of the optical waveguide and the multiple micro-channels is formed, the analysis performance higher than that of a traditional optical system is realized through the multiple micro-fluid channels and the large-scale matrixing optical waveguide, the chip-level on-chip optical detection and analysis system of the high-flux biological sample is quickly constructed, and the high-flux chip of biological detection under the micro-nano scale is realized.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a light guide structure in a detection chip according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of A of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of B of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a light guide structure in the grating waveguide multi-micro-channel chip according to the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a side view of one of the microfluidics of FIG. 1;
FIG. 7 is a top view of FIG. 6;
FIG. 8 is a side view of a coupled grating waveguide microfluid;
figure 9 is a side view of a coupled grating waveguide multi-channel detection system.
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The following detailed description of embodiments of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings.
In the drawings, the dimensional ratios of layers and regions are not actual ratios for the convenience of description. When a layer (or film) is referred to as being "on" another layer or substrate, it can be directly on the other layer or substrate, or intervening layers may also be present. In addition, when a layer is referred to as being "under" another layer, it can be directly under, and one or more intervening layers may also be present. In addition, when a layer is referred to as being between two layers, it can be the only layer between the two layers, or one or more intervening layers may also be present. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout. In addition, when two components are referred to as being "connected," they include physical connections, including, but not limited to, electrical connections, contact connections, and wireless signal connections, unless the specification expressly dictates otherwise.
The invention provides a vertical grating waveguide and microfluidic channel integrated module scheme, and simultaneously provides a manufacturing method of a grating waveguide multi-microfluidic channel chip, and an on-chip optical detection and analysis integrated system of a high-flux biological sample at a micro-nano scale is quickly constructed. The vertical grating waveguide is a grating waveguide for guiding light into the micro channel in the vertical direction.
A method for manufacturing a grating waveguide multi-microchannel chip 1, as shown in fig. 5, includes:
step 1000: providing a substrate 11, and forming a lower cladding layer 141 of silicon dioxide with the thickness of 2-3 mu m on the substrate 11;
step 2000: forming a waveguide layer 13 on the lower cladding layer 141, the waveguide layer 13 being a silicon nitride material;
step 3000: forming a first number m of grating waveguide groups 131, 132, 13m from said waveguide layer 13, said grating waveguide groups 131 comprising a second number n of grating waveguides 1311, 1312 … 131n, as shown in fig. 6, said grating waveguides 131 comprising exit gratings 1310, to form an n x m matrixed detection system;
step 4000: forming a silicon dioxide protection layer 12 on the waveguide layer 13, wherein the protection layer 12 is light-transmissive, and the protection layer 12 is used for covering the grating waveguide and protecting the exit grating 1310; forming an upper cladding 142 of a high polymer material with a thickness of 15-30 [ mu ] m on the waveguide layer 13;
step 5000: forming micro channels 201, 202 … 20m of a first number m, wherein the grating waveguide group 131 and the micro channels 201 are in one-to-one correspondence to form micro fluid of the first number m, and the exit grating 1310 is located below the micro channels 201, 202 … 20m to guide light into the micro channels 201, 202 … 20m in the vertical direction, so as to provide a new design scheme and idea for different complex integrated structures, and can design exit gratings of different exit directions, thereby increasing flexibility of detection means; the micro flow channels 201, 202 … 20m penetrate through the upper cladding 142 to expose the protective layer 12;
step 6000: forming a flow channel cover plate 15 on the upper cladding 142, wherein the flow channel cover plate 15 comprises liquid injection ports 151 and 152 … 15m for injecting a solution containing a biomolecule to be detected into the micro flow channels 201 and 202 … 20 m; it should be noted that, a liquid outlet (not shown) is further included to form a circulation system corresponding to the liquid injection port 151 one by one, and the liquid outlet may be an opening on the flow passage cover plate 15; the liquid outlet may also be an opening at both ends of the micro flow channel 2, and the invention is not limited herein.
The width of the micro-flow channels 201 and 202 … 20m is 10-100 mu m, a structure of a grating waveguide and multi-micro-flow channel integrated matrix with the total grating waveguide number of n m is formed, and a chip-level on-chip optical detection and analysis integrated system of the high-flux biological sample under the micro-nano scale is rapidly constructed.
It should be noted that the first number m of microfluids may form one microfluid group, and a microfluid matrix formed by a third number of microfluid groups may also be constructed, where the third number is k, and the total number of grating waveguides is n × m × k matrixed detection systems; and forming a structure of a grating waveguide and multi-micro-channel integrated matrix, and quickly constructing a chip-level on-chip optical detection and analysis integrated system of the high-flux biological sample under the micro-nano scale.
It should be noted that the grating waveguide set includes a second number n of mutually parallel grating waveguides, as shown in fig. 7, the grating waveguide set 131 includes a second number n of mutually parallel grating waveguides 1311, 1312 … 131n to guide light into the micro channel 201 vertically and upwards, and the width of the grating waveguides is 300-600 nm.
In step 3000, the waveguide layer thickness is 150-1000nm, a photoresist (not shown) is spin-coated on the waveguide layer 13 to form a grating waveguide group mask (not shown), the waveguide layer 13 is etched to form a first number m of mutually parallel grating waveguide groups 131 and 132 … 13m, the widths of the grating waveguides included therein are 300-600nm, for example, the widths of the grating waveguides 1311 and 1312 … 131n included in the grating waveguide group 131 are 300-600 nm.
Wherein the directions of the light sources introduced into the waveguide set 131 are different, such as: fig. 6 shows that the light source is introduced from one end (left end) of the grating waveguide group 131, and fig. 8 shows that the light source is introduced from above the upper cladding 142, in the multi-micro-channel, especially matrixed, detection system, the former needs to add the light guide structure 6 shown in fig. 1 from the structure when the matrixed chip is manufactured, and the latter does not need to add the light guide structure, and the light guide structure 6 is described below with reference to the following figures:
aiming at the n × m matrixing detection system of the grating waveguide, the method comprises the following steps: the light guide structure 6 directly transmits light with wavelengths of λ 1, λ 2, λ 3 … λ n to the grating waveguides 1311, 1312 … 131n in the grating waveguide group 131 and all the grating waveguide groups 132..13m in the same microfluidic group through the n first light guides 61 in the trunk light guide 60, in which case the n first light guides 61 in the trunk light guide 60 constitute the first light guide group 601.
For the above described grating waveguide n × m × k matrixed detection system: step 3000, as shown in fig. 4 to 6, further comprising the steps of spin-coating a photoresist (not shown) on the waveguide layer 13 to form a light splitting structure mask (not shown), etching the waveguide layer 13 to form a light splitting structure a, wherein the light splitting structure a is used to extract a third number k of light guide groups 601, 602, 60k from the main path light guide 60, the light guide groups 601, 602, 60k are respectively optically connected with the light waveguide groups 131, 132 … 13m, and further the light guide group 601 is optically connected with the light waveguides 1311, 1312 … 131n in the light waveguide group 131, as shown in fig. 6, the widths of the light waveguides 1311, 1312 … 131n are 300-600 nm; the light guide sets 601, 602, and 60k are led out from the trunk light guide 60 by using a light splitting structure a.
For the above described grating waveguide n × m × k matrixed detection system: as shown in fig. 3 to 5, the cross-layer structure B of the cross node of the extracted second light guide 62 and the first light guide 61 in the trunk light guide 60 (and the first light guide 61 in the same light guide group) needs to be specially designed; as shown in fig. 1, 5, and 4 to 6, step 3000 further includes spin-coating a photoresist (not shown) on the waveguide layer 13 to form a first light guide mask (not shown), and etching the waveguide layer 13 to form a second number n of first light guides 61 (including the first light guides 61 in the dry light guide 60 and the first light guides 61 in the light guide group); spin coating an intermediate layer (not shown) of polymer material on the waveguide layer 13, forming a second light guiding trench (not shown) on the intermediate layer using electron beam direct writing, depositing silicon nitride in the second light guiding trench and chemical mechanical polishing to form a third number k of second light guides 62 of silicon nitride, i.e. a total number n k of second light guides 62, to finally form light guide groups 601, 602 as in fig. 1; specifically, the light guide structure 6 includes a trunk light guide 60, and a first light guide set 601 and a second light guide set 602 … (kth light guide set) (not shown) led out from the trunk light guide 60 to respectively guide light sources to k total micro-fluid sets. The light guide structure 6 is optically connected with the grating waveguide group 131 through the first light guide group 601, and further optically connected with all the grating waveguide groups 132..13m in the same microfluidic group along the waveguide layer 13, so that it is not necessary to match a separate light guide structure for each grating waveguide group in each same microfluidic group, thereby saving the process and reducing the complexity of the structure. As shown in fig. 3 to 5, a cross-layer structure B is formed by a part of the first light guide 61 and a part of the second light guide 62; specifically, a cross-layer structure B is shown in fig. 3-4, which includes a first light guiding overlap region 610 and a second light guiding overlap region 620; the first light guide 61 is broken at the intersection, and a first acute angle light guide end surface 611 and a second acute angle light guide end surface 612 are formed at two opposite ends of the broken first light guide; the second light guide 62 forms a first acute angle light guide surface 621 and a second acute angle light guide surface 622 respectively matched with the first acute angle light guide end surface 611 and the second acute angle light guide end surface 612 at the intersection; the first light guide overlapping region 610 includes the first acute-angle light guide end surface 611 and a first acute-angle light guide surface 621 matched with the first acute-angle light guide end surface 611, wherein a distance between surfaces of the first acute-angle light guide end surface 611 and the first acute-angle light guide surface 621 is smaller than 1 μm; the second light guide overlapping region 620 includes the second acute-angle light guide end surface 612 and a second acute-angle light guide surface 622 matched with the second acute-angle light guide end surface 612, wherein a distance between opposite surfaces of the second acute-angle light guide end surface 612 and the second acute-angle light guide surface 622 is smaller than 1 μm; that is, the first light guide 61 is broken at the intersection, a first acute angle light guide end surface 611 and a second acute angle light guide end surface 612 are respectively formed at two opposite ends of the broken first light guide 61, the second light guide 62 led out from the trunk light guide 60 forms a first acute angle light guide surface 621 and a second acute angle light guide surface 622 at the intersection, which are matched with the first acute angle light guide end surface 611 and the second acute angle light guide end surface 612 and have a distance smaller than 1 μm, so as to form a first light guide overlapping region 610 and a second light guide overlapping region 620, light transmitted from one end of the first light guide 61 which is broken enters the second light guide 62 through the first light guide overlapping region 610 and then enters the other end of the first light guide 61 which is broken through the second light guide overlapping region 620, that is, light transmitted from one end of the first light guide 61 which is broken enters the first acute angle light guide surface 621 through the first acute angle light guide end surface 611 and is consistent with the conduction direction of the light which is not reflected, and then enters the second acute angle light guide end surface 612 through the second acute angle light guide surface 622, thereby completing the cross-layer conduction of light.
It should be noted that, for the detection system in which the total number of grating waveguides is n × m × k matrixing, the light source can be continuously transmitted to the next microfluidic group to the kth microfluidic group by using the light splitting structure a at the leftmost side of the first light guide 61. As shown, a light splitting structure a is used to lead a second number of vertical first light guides 61 upwards from a second number of horizontal first light guides 61, specifically, a second number n of vertical first light guides 61 is led vertically upwards in sequence from a second number n of horizontal first light guides 61 to transmit light to a next micro-fluid group, and so on until a kth micro-fluid group transmits light. As shown in fig. 1 and 5, the waveguide layer 13 finally formed after step 3000 has a thickness of 150nm to 1000nm, i.e., the horizontal portion of the grating waveguide 1311, 1312 … 131n in fig. 6 has a thickness of 150nm to 1000 nm.
If a multi-microchannel chip including the coupled grating waveguide shown in fig. 8 is to be formed, and a light guide structure is not to be formed, the waveguide layer 13 with a thickness of 150nm to 1000nm is formed on the lower cladding layer 141 in step 2000; in step 3000, a photoresist (not shown) is spin-coated on the waveguide layer 13 to form a plurality of grating waveguide masks (not shown) parallel to each other, and the waveguide layer 13 is etched to form a second number n of horizontal portions of the grating waveguides 1311, 1312 … 131n parallel to each other; spin-coating photoresist (not shown) again to form an incident grating mask and an exit grating mask (not shown), depositing to form an exit grating 1310 and an incident grating 1310 ', combining the exit grating 131 with the horizontal portions of the grating waveguides 1311, 1312 … 131n to form grating waveguides 1311, 1312 … 131n, forming a coupling grating waveguide at one end (the left end as shown in fig. 9) of the waveguide layer 13, including a second number n of incident gratings 1310' of silicon nitride material, with the second number n of grating waveguides 1, 1312 … 131n included in the nearest grating waveguide group 131 in the microfluid, respectively, introducing the light above the channel cover plate 15 into the waveguide layer 13 and transmitting the light along the waveguide layer 13 to all microfluids in the same microfluid group, and introducing the light upward in the vertical direction into the microchannels 201, 202 … 20 m; the upper cladding layer 142 above the entrance grating 1310', the flow channel cover plate 15 and the protective layer 12 are all light-transmissive, the protective layer 12 is made of silica material to cover the grating waveguide sets 131, 132 … 13n and protect the exit grating 1310, and the width of the coupling grating waveguide is 300-600 nm. In step 4000, the protection layer 12 covers and protects the incident grating 1310'.
In the present invention, step 5000 further includes: and carrying out local exposure on the position of the upper cladding 142 where the micro-channel is scheduled to be formed, and forming micro-channels 201, 202 … 20m penetrating through the upper cladding 142 and having the width of 10-100 mu m after hard baking and developing.
In the present invention, the substrate 11 is a silicon substrate; preferably, the substrate 11 is a 4, 8, 12 inch silicon wafer.
In the invention, the high polymer material is SU-8 resin, polyimide, polydimethylsilane, polyethylene or benzocyclobutene.
In the present invention, the flow path cover 15 is made of PDMS or quartz, and may be made of the above-mentioned polymer material.
In the present invention, the silicon nitride waveguide layer 13 is a silicon nitride thin film layer having a thickness of 150nm to 1000nm formed at a low deposition temperature of 25 to 150 ℃; the refractive index of the silicon nitride film is 1.75-2.2. The silicon nitride film may be a film having a uniform refractive index, or may be a film having a non-uniform refractive index, such as a silicon nitride film having a layered refractive index structure.
Circulating tumor cells are a general term for various tumor cells that leave the tumor tissue and enter the blood circulation system of the human body. By detecting trace circulating tumor cells in peripheral blood and monitoring the trend of the change of the types and the quantity of the circulating tumor cells, the tumor dynamics can be monitored in real time, the treatment effect can be evaluated, and the real-time individual treatment can be realized. Referring to fig. 1, 5 and 6, an embodiment of detecting circulating tumor cells by using a detection system comprising a multi-microchannel chip with grating waveguides of the present invention, wherein the total number of grating waveguides is n × m × k matrix, is described as follows:
the first step is as follows: sorting and enriching various tumor cells possibly existing in the collected m x k patient blood samples by adopting an immunomagnetic bead technology (such as immunomagnetic bead positive sorting) or a microfluidic technology to obtain a solution containing circulating tumor cells, or directly adopting the patient blood samples;
the second step is that: adding an antibody group which can be specifically combined with surface antigens of various tumor cells or an aptamer group which can be combined with the surfaces of various tumor cells into the solution or the blood sample containing the circulating tumor cells, wherein the antibody group and the aptamer group modify marks, and the antibody combined with specific tumor cells or the modified marks on the aptamer have uniqueness, so as to obtain the solution or the blood sample containing the marked circulating tumor cells; the labels are n, and can be target probes of fluorescent molecules;
the third step: as shown in fig. 1 and 5, the m × k solutions or blood samples obtained in the second step are respectively added to the micro flow channels 201 and 202 … m (not fully listed, total number of injection ports is m × k) from the injection ports 151 and 152 … m (not fully listed, total number of micro flow channels is m × k), and the light of n different wavelengths corresponding to the n kinds of markers is guided into the second number of n (all) grating waveguides 131 and 132 … m (not fully listed, total number of grating waveguides is m × k) in the corresponding micro flow groups along the waveguide layer 13 (as shown in fig. 6 to 7), 1311 and 1312 82131 n in the grating waveguide group 131 are not fully listed, total number of waveguides n × m is m × k), and then guided into the micro flow channels in the vertical direction, 202 … 20m, wherein the labeled biomolecules 21 with different fluorescent molecular labels are circulating tumor cells excited by light with different wavelengths to emit fluorescence with specific wavelengths, and the non-excited biomolecules 20 are normal cells without labels or tumor cells without labels but outside the light field, a microscope (not shown) is used for collecting fluorescence (light signals) with specific wavelengths and transmitting the fluorescence (light signals) to the measuring device (not shown), the measuring device (not shown) processes the collected fluorescence (light signals) with specific wavelengths and generates signals to be analyzed and transmits the signals to be analyzed to the analyzing device (not shown), the analyzing device (not shown) analyzes the signals to be analyzed to form a spectrum of the fluorescence with specific wavelengths, the kind of the circulating tumor cells in the solution or blood sample can be judged by reading the spectrum, and a plurality of tumor circulating cells of different patients can be detected respectively at one time, the high-throughput chip for detecting various tumor cells under the micro-nano scale is realized, so that the tumor dynamics is monitored in real time, the treatment effect is evaluated, and the real-time individual treatment is realized.
The invention provides a manufacturing method of a grating waveguide multi-micro-channel chip, which has the following beneficial effects: has the advantages that: the structure of an integrated matrix of the optical waveguide and the multiple micro-channels is formed, the analysis performance higher than that of a traditional optical system is realized through the multiple micro-fluid channels and the large-scale matrixing optical waveguide, a chip-level on-chip optical detection and analysis system of a high-flux biological sample is quickly constructed, and a high-flux chip for biological detection under the micro-nano scale is realized.
The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various modifications and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these modifications and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. A manufacturing method of a grating waveguide multi-micro-channel chip comprises the following steps:
step 1000: providing a substrate, and forming a lower cladding layer of silicon dioxide with the thickness of 2-3 mu m on the substrate;
step 2000: forming a waveguide layer on the lower cladding layer, the waveguide layer being a silicon nitride material;
step 3000: forming a first number of grating waveguide groups with the waveguide layer, the grating waveguide groups including a second number of grating waveguides; the grating waveguide comprises an exit grating;
step 4000: forming a silicon dioxide protective layer on the waveguide layer, wherein the protective layer is used for covering the grating waveguide and protecting the emergent grating; forming an upper cladding layer of a high polymer material with the thickness of 15-30 mu m on the protective layer;
step 5000: forming a first number of micro channels, wherein the grating waveguide groups and the micro channels are in one-to-one correspondence to form a first number of micro fluids so as to form a micro fluid group; the micro flow channel penetrates through the upper cladding to expose the protective layer; the emergent grating is positioned below the micro-channel and used for guiding light into the micro-channel upwards along the vertical direction;
step 6000: forming a flow channel cover plate on the upper cladding layer, wherein the flow channel cover plate comprises a liquid injection port for injecting a solution containing the biomolecules to be detected into the micro-flow channel;
the width of the micro flow channel is 10-100 mu m.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step 3000, the waveguide layer has a thickness of 150nm-1000nm, photoresist is spin-coated on the waveguide layer to form grating waveguide masks parallel to each other, the waveguide layer is etched to form the grating waveguides parallel to each other, and the width of the grating waveguides is 300-600 nm.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the waveguide layer is formed by inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition at a deposition temperature of 25-150 ℃ with introduction of a reaction carrier gas comprising a silicon gas source and a nitrogen gas source in step 2000.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein in step 5000, the upper cladding layer is soft-baked, local exposure is performed on a position of the upper cladding layer where the micro flow channel is to be formed, and after hard baking and development, the micro flow channel penetrating the upper cladding layer and having a width of 10 to 100 μm is formed.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein in step 2000, said waveguide layer is formed to a thickness of 150nm to 1000nm on said lower cladding layer;
step 3000, spin-coating photoresist on the waveguide layer to form a grating waveguide mask, etching the waveguide layer to form a plurality of parallel horizontal portions of the grating waveguide; spin-coating photoresist again to form an incident grating and an exit grating mask, depositing to form the incident grating and the exit grating, forming the grating waveguide with the horizontal part of the grating waveguide, forming a plurality of coupling grating waveguides parallel to each other with the incident grating and the grating waveguide, wherein the width of the coupling grating waveguide is 300-600 nm;
in step 4000, the protective layer covers and protects the incident grating.
6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step 3000, the thickness of the waveguide layer is greater than 1000nm, photoresist is spin-coated on the waveguide layer to form a plurality of grating waveguide masks parallel to each other, the waveguide layer is etched to form a plurality of grating waveguides parallel to each other, and the width of the grating waveguides is 300-600 nm.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein in step 1000, the lower cladding layer is formed on the substrate using a chemical vapor deposition method or a thermal oxidation method.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the polymeric material is SU-8 resin, polyimide, polydimethylsilane, polyethylene, or benzocyclobutene.
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