Avery Dennison micro-nano replication capabilities for MEMS and microfluidics

Polymers can be used as one of most promising materials for MEMS applications. In this paper, we successfully demonstrated embossing micro-nano structures on polymers, especially high temperature polymers (>300/spl deg/C) by using Avery's unique proprietary embossing technology. Also in this paper, we demonstrated a roll-to-roll embossing/lamination method for manufacturing low cost plastic microfluidics devices.