Spherical and non-spherical high fill-factor microlens arrays fabricated by polymer coating on isotropically etched quartz

Minwoo Nam; Haekwan Oh; Geunyoung Kim; Hyunwoo Seo; Yotak Song; Sang Sik Yang; Kee-Keun Lee

doi:10.1117/12.876092

28 February 2011 Spherical and non-spherical high fill-factor microlens arrays fabricated by polymer coating on isotropically etched quartz

Minwoo Nam, Haekwan Oh, Geunyoung Kim, Hyunwoo Seo, Yotak Song, Sang Sik Yang, Kee-Keun Lee

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Proceedings Volume 7928, Reliability, Packaging, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS and Nanodevices X; 792804 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876092
Event: SPIE MOEMS-MEMS, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Various shapes of microlens arrays (MLAs) were developed by utilizing polymer coating on etched quartz substrates. Spherical and non-spherical plano-concave curvatures were realized via isotropic wet etching of quartz in buffered oxide etchant (BOE), based on diverse design parameters and calculated etching times. The fabricated curvatures showed a high fill-factor and uniform elements in the array. By coating a higher refractive index polymer on the etched quartz, the illuminated light was well focused at the focal plane forming a micronscale light spot array. The experimental focal length was increased from 39.8 to 49.6 μm, as the shape of microlens was flattened. These results well correspond to those obtained from an optical simulation.

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Minwoo Nam, Haekwan Oh, Geunyoung Kim, Hyunwoo Seo, Yotak Song, Sang Sik Yang, and Kee-Keun Lee "Spherical and non-spherical high fill-factor microlens arrays fabricated by polymer coating on isotropically etched quartz", Proc. SPIE 7928, Reliability, Packaging, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS and Nanodevices X, 792804 (28 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876092

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