SoftLithoBox® – Full soft lithography station

Create your own master molds and PDMS chips out of the clean room

The full softlithography station, includes everything you need to fabricate molds and replicate PDMS devices directly in your lab. Our pack includes all equipments and support to produce chips autonomously.

A Turnkey offer to fabricate SU-8 mold and PDMS chips

Our soft-lithography station is a turnkey offer, no need to acquire any additional equipment. Basically, only a chemical fume hood and a little working space is required.

We adjust the offer, together, to be fine-tuned to your needs.

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It a complete station with all the main and side equipment ( Oven, Desiccator, Spin coater, UV Lamp, Hot plate, Air compressor, Vaccum pump), all the chemicals (SU8, developper, TMCS, Acetone, Ispropanol, PDMS, adhesion promoter), all the accessories ( Silicon wafers, tweezers, glass slides, Petri dishes, disposable cups, stirring rods, scalpels, etc.) , and all the support you need to be immediatly autonous in your fabrication.

BENEFITS

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  • Reach the same pattern resolution as in a clean room
  • Fabricate your molds without initial knowledge in microfabrication
  • Get the best equipment to ensure your facility a long lifetime
  • Get advantage of our knowledge for your soft-lithography process

Support

  • Standard support pack: We take care of the after sale of all your instruments, we provide you microfabrication process-sheet and tutorials, we provide you 1 years phone assistance to answers any microfabrication questions you could have.
  • Extended support pack: In addition to standard pack our R&D team  install the softlithobox directly in your labs, we adapt on site all our microfabrication process to your needs and we train your team until there become ready to fabricate all your microfluidic chips.

Included instruments

Our specialists selected and adapted the best instruments to make them work together with reliable process.

Tutorial SU8 photoresist baking during photolithography process - hot plateEnsure accurate, homogeneous and stable temperature set points. This digital hotplate device enables to set temperature ramp for heating and cooling down. Make your life easier with its programmable controls which enable to automatize your photolithography process.

A device adapted for Soft-lithography applications

Its aluminum top plate and its great heating surface area enables to have a wide enough zone where the temperature is homogeneous for an efficiently bake of SU-8 photoresist on a 4 inches wafer. The temperature ramp enables to reduce the mechanical stress inside the photoresist layer. The programmable tool enables to do long photoresist bakes without staying in front of the device.

  • Temperature ramp to heat up and cool down
  • High temperature uniformity over 4 inches wafer
  • No temperature sensor drift over time
  • Microprocessor display maintains consistent temperature
  • Minimal temperature overshoot
  • Automatic timer
  • Smoothed aluminium plate for easy photoresist cleaning
  • Control time count, temperature and set point directly from your PC

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Natural convention drying oven. Frontal panel with bimetallic fluid expansion probe thermo regulator. This oven sized for 4 inches wafer will allow you to cure your PDMS efficiently.

A device adapted for Soft-lithography applications

Size adapted to a Petri dish and to heat two molds at one time. Its minimum footprint enable fast pre-heating and small electric consumption. It is a really movable device and can be install everywhere.

  • Easy to use
  • Internal chamber in aluminum for a better heat diffusion
  • Adjustable flow air going inside the chamber for venting
  • Small footprint adapted to 15 mm Petri dish
  • Two internal shelves
  • Light warning during heating
  • Timer goes from 1 to 120 minutes

UV LAMP BLACK photolithography Programmable-UV-lampAn unique UV LED exposure and masking system (in option) with available light sources at wavelengths of 365 nm or 385 nm. This is a very compact table-top system capable of exposing a wafer surface area of up to 4 inches in diameter. This automatic UV system is compatible with hard (physical) or soft (proximity) masking contacts, and features variable mask to substrate distance control.

A device adapted for Soft-lithography applications

With 2μm resolution, the device is particularly well tuned for soft-lithography applications. The exposure in flash enables to reduce the internal mechanical stress of the photoresist. Its little size enables to install it everywhere you want, especially outside a clean room.

  • Perfectly monochromatic exposure over the wafer surface area (bandwidth lower than 10 nm)
  • Cold UV exposure
  • Divergence angle of the light < 2°
  • Strong power density
  • Long LED lifetime: more than 10 000 hours equivalent to 8 – 10 years of use
  • Fast switch on/off of the LED enables to flash the photoresist
  • User-friendly touch screen interface for exposure cycles programming
  • No warm-up time required
  • Intuitive control of UV source intensity
  • Automated wafer loading and unloading system
  • Usable with glass and plastic photomask
  • Directional UV beam
  • No variation in time of the UV power
  • High UV uniformity on 4 inches wafer
  • Integrated UV meter

Soft-lithography-plasma-cleaner-definitionThe first plasma cleaner designed specifically for PDMS bonding, this automated plasma enable to easily fabricate your PDMS microfluidic device. Thanks to its vacuum feedback loop,  this plasma cleaner automatically regulate the vacuum inside the chamber without need of hand tuning.

A device adapted for Soft-lithography applications

This plasma has been specially optimized for PDMS bonding, with glass or PDMS. Its unique vacuum feedback loop enable you an automatic and  reproducible PDMS bonding.

  • Automatic pressure regulation for easy PDMS bonding
  • Low pressure drift gauge for reproducible process over time
  • Secured vacuum pump to avoid contamination of plasma chamber
  • Three RF power available
  • Numeric vacuum gauge
  • Fine vacuum tuning compatible with 3 to 6 inches wafer

Choose a spin coater for SU-8 photolithography example

This spin coater is compact and packed with advanced features. It works with wafer up to ø150mm and 5″ × 5″ (127mm × 127mm) substrates. This spin coater is perfectly fine-tuned to do controllable and repeatable Su-8 photoresist layer.

A device adapted for Soft-lithography applications

Its compact size with the little panel control attached make the device really movable. The product has been widely use for SU-8 photoresist coating. The hole on the lid enables to do dynamic SU-8 coating.

  • Designed specifically for ease-of-use
  • Simple to program from the operator panel or your PC
  • Ability to set complex sequence with several accelerations and speeds
  • Easy to clean
  • Non clogging system for extended lifetime
  • Low vibration
  • Speed up to 12000 rpm
  • Provided with wafer centering tool

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