MicroBridge: Bridging micro-nanomanufacturing gap
by Robert Hoyle
International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation (IJTTC), Vol. 7, No. 2/3, 2008

Abstract: The future world of nano-dimensions is leading to the generation of a new range of products for markets such as medical and healthcare diagnostics, industrial automation, optical telecommunications and aerospace applications. Large-scale manufacturing requires rapid replication using injection moulding. 'Direct write' and lithographic technologies are capable of structuring at the nanometre level. Precision micro-machining technologies allow machining of non-silicon materials down to 10-20 microns. This has left a 'gap' between 'classical' precision micro-machining and the lithographic/direct write patterning technologies. This gap has been filled by the establishment of a £7.5 million facility at Cardiff University known as 'MicroBridge'.

Online publication date: Thu, 18-Sep-2008

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