Citrogene

Source: Citrogene's Official Website (https://www.citrogene.com/)

Citrogene is an American company that provides high-precision laser microfabrication services for a wide range of glass materials.

This page presents the strengths of Citrogene's microfabrication services, the materials they can work with, and more.

Citrogene's microfabrication services

Citrogene uses its proprietary laser microfabrication technologies to form channels between 30 µm and 200 µm (0.03 mm and 0.20 mm) and to drill through holes with diameters of 25 µm (0.025 mm) in hard glass. It performs high-precision microfabrication of channels and holes with a minimum pitch of just 100 µm 0.10 mm).

Citrogene's technologies have little thermal impacts and avoid surface damage or cracking, so they're well-suited for microchannel chips with delicate structures.

For example, they can be used to create minute channels, through holes, and electrode patterns with a high degree of reproducibility for fields such as the biochip or lab-on-a-chip devices.

Fabrication services

Citrogene's contactless laser microfabrication offers a greater degree of shape freedom and shorter turnaround than conventional drilling or photolithography.

It provides a wide range of services, including drilling, cutting, channel formation, surface processing, and more.

Supported materials

Citrogene primarily works with glass materials such as quartz, fused silica, BOROFLOAT, and alkali-free boroaluminosilicate, which have little thermal expansion.

It also works with inexpensive, easy-to-process glass materials such as soda lime and strong, scratch-resistant aluminosilicate.

Supported sizes

Citrogene can work with glass wafer substrates with diameters between 15 mm and 300 mm and thicknesses between 0.03 mm and 3.0 mm.

Examples of Citrogene's microfabrication

Not listed on the official website

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