This research reports a simple and novel method to fabricate microlens arrays by soft stamping the unexposed SU-8 photoresist. A SU-8 based stamp composed of micro-nozzle arrays with a reservoir structure on a glass substrate is first fabricated using a process of dosage control exposure. The unexposed SU-8 is then encapsulated in the cross-linked SU-8 shell and was used as the ¡§ink¡¨ for the stamping process. The proposed SU-8 microlens array is then formed by stamping the formed SU-8 structure on a bare glass substrate at a temperature higher than the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the unexposed SU-8 microlens array. Lenses with various radii of curvature can be formed by controlling the working temperature during the stamping process.
In addition, this work also employed a simple electric static pulling scheme to manipulate the fabricated lenses profiles. Aspherical SU-8 microlens arrays with a wide range of tunable focal lengths were fabricated with this approach. Furthermore, we develop an advanced localize E-field control technique to fabricate microlenses with various focus length and microlenses with different tilt angle in a single lens array sheet. A novel grayscale mask fabrication technique is also proposed first. This low cost and rapid method is applied on stepwise and continuous tilt plane fabrication for produces a gradually changed E-field. Hetero axes and focus lengths microlenses are fabricated with this approach. In order to farther understand the real E-field distribution, a novel PCF based E-field sensor fabrication technique is also proposed. This technique also shows the potential on various PCF based devices fabrications.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0216111-162218 |
| Date | 16 February 2011 |
| Creators | Kuo, Shu-Ming |
| Contributors | Lung-Ming Fu, Che-Hsin Lin, Shin-Pon Ju, John Lee, Cheng-Hsin Chuang, Wood-Hi Cheng, Tai-Fa Young, C.T. Pan, Yung-Chun Lee |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0216111-162218 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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