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- Title
Curved Film Microstructure Arrays Fabricated via Mechanical Stretching.
- Authors
Zhang, Qiushu; Peng, Bei; Chu, Mengqi; Wen, Pan; Wang, Song; Xu, Jintao
- Abstract
We report on curved film microstructure arrays fabricated through polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film buckling induced by mechanical stretching. In the process of the microstructure preparation, a PDMA film is glued on a bidirectionally prestretched PDMS sheet that has a square distributed hole array on its surface. After releasing the prestrain, the film microstructure array is created spontaneously. The fabricated microstructures possess a spherical surface and demonstrate very good uniformity. The film microstructure arrays can serve as microlens arrays with a focal length of 1010 μm. The microstructure formation mechanism is investigated via theoretical analysis and numerical simulation. The simulation results agree well with the experimental results. The prestrain applied by mechanical stretching during the fabrication has an important effect on the shape of the resulting film microstructures. The microstructure geometry can be easily tuned through controlling the applied prestrain.
- Subjects
MICROSTRUCTURE; MECHANICAL buckling; NUMERICAL analysis; FOCAL length
- Publication
Micromachines, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 11, p1281
- ISSN
2072-666X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/mi12111281