Conference paper
Thiol-Ene Based Polymer Waveguides Fabricated By Uv-Assisted Soft Lithography For Optofluidic Applications
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Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
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2011, pp. 1989-1991
Abstract
In this paper, a thiol-ene based polymer waveguide, defined by UV-assisted soft lithography, is designed, fabricated and characterized. Waveguides are formed by filling microfluidic channels with a high refractive index liquid mixture of ‘thiol’ and ‘ene’ monomers (e.g., trimethylolpropane tris(3-mercaptopropionate) = ‘thiol’, and 1,3,5-triallyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-trione = ‘ene’), which can be cured by UV exposure into a solid polymer.
The waveguides demonstrated good confinement of light, and a propagation loss of 0.5 dB/cm was obtained. To our best knowledge, this is the first report to employ thiol-ene based polymers as waveguide core materials for potential optofluidic applications.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2011 |
| Pages: | 1989-1991 |
| Proceedings: | 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences |
| Types: | Conference paper |
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