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Polymer Microlens 제작을 위한 Thermal Reflow 공정 해석

Analysis of Thermal Reflow Process for Polymer Microlens Fabrication

Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering 2018;35(3):319-325.
Published online: March 1, 2018

1 한국기술교육대학교 기계공학부

2 서울대학교 기계항공공학부

1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Technology and Education University

2 School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University

#E-mail: smkim@koreatech.ac.kr, TEL: +82-41-560-1159
• Received: December 26, 2016   • Revised: March 21, 2017   • Accepted: August 10, 2017

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Analysis of Thermal Reflow Process for Polymer Microlens Fabrication
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Fig. 1 Schematic of microlens fabrication process
Fig. 2 The geometry of line&space pattern prior to thermal reflow process
Fig. 3 Geometry of the cylindrical lens after reflowing
Fig. 4 Theoretical geometry parameters relation for microlens design
Fig. 5 Typical viscosity approximation using Cross-WLF model
Fig. 6 PMMA log-scale viscosity versus shear rate at 180oC
Fig. 7 Curvature profile after thermal reflow at 180oC with time: (a) before Reflowing, (b) 60 sec, (c) 600 sec, (d) 1800 sec, (e) 2400 sec
Fig. 8 Width: 300 μm, height: 60 μm, focal length: 350 μm: (a) Theoretical profile, (b) Thermal Reflow profile at 180oC for 30 min, (c) 55 min. reflowed profile
Fig. 9 Width: 300 μm, height: 20 μm, focal length: 800 μm: (a) Theoretical profile, (b) Thermal reflow profile at 180oC for 30 min, (c) 45 min. reflowed profile
Fig. 10 Width: 750 μm, height: 200 μm, focal length: 800 μm: (a) Theoretical profile, (b) Thermal reflow profile at 180oC for 30 min, (c) 1hr 15min. reflowed profile
Fig. 11 Width: 1000 μm, height: 200 μm, focal length: 1200 μm: (a) Theoretical profile, (b) Thermal reflow profile at 180oC for 30 min, (c) 1 hr 30 min. reflowed profile.
Fig. 12 Comparison between consistency rate (25%) and aspect ratio
Analysis of Thermal Reflow Process for Polymer Microlens Fabrication

Theoretical geometry cases

(μm)

# Width Height Focal length Aspect ratio
1 300 60 350 0.2
2 300 20 800 0.067
3 750 200 800 0.27
4 1000 200 1200 0.2
5 600 40 1600 0.067
6 470 130 500 0.27

Constants for the Cross-WLF model of PMMA

n τ(Pa) A1(K) A2(K) D1(Pa·s) D2(K)
0.3973 35607 31.081 51.6 6.13×1012 377.15

Consistency rate by cases

# Width height Consistency
rate
Consistency rate
(25%)
(1) 300 60 94.94% 98.67%
(2) 300 20 71.03% 97.8%
(3) 750 200 99.41% 99.56%
(4) 1000 200 95.53% 98.1%
(5) 600 40 92.46% 95.22%
(6) 470 130 91.31% 93.13%
Table 1 Theoretical geometry cases (μm)
Table 2 Constants for the Cross-WLF model of PMMA
Table 3 Consistency rate by cases