Micro hot embossing of thermoplastic polymers is a promising process to fabricate high
precision and high quality features in micro/nano scale. This technology has experienced …

Protein micropatterning has become an important tool for many biomedical applications as
well as in academic research. Current techniques that allow to reduce the feature size of …

In this work, a scalable thermal imprinting method that allows to directly fabricate
superhydrophobic polymer surfaces with superstrong resistance to harsh cleaning and …

Hot embossing is a technique used to fabricate high-precision and high-quality polymeric
components that combines low costs with high aspect ratio fidelity replication. In this study …

The hot embossing properties of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) have been examined as a
function of comonomer content. Six standard grades of COC with varying norbornene …

In this work, we investigated how elastomeric mold properties could affect the final
replication accuracy in hot roller embossing. Amorphous polyethylene terephthalate was …

Abstract Roll-to-roll (R2R) hot embossing is a continuous imprinting technique for the
replication of large-area microstructures. Polymer deformation and recovery behavior is …

The hot embossing process is a cost-effective replication technology for the fabrication of
polymeric micro/nano-structures. Nevertheless, there is a need to reduce the embossing …

Polymeric optical sheets are significant components in large-scale display devices and are
difficult to fabricate due to small size and high accuracy of large-area microstructures. As a …

Optical encoders are one of the most common displacement sensors. Scale gratings for
such sensors are usually made of glass. However, polymers can offer several advantages …