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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
May. 01, 2008
Erik Jesper Eklund, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Andrei M Shkel, Irvine, CA (US);
Erik Jesper Eklund, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Andrei M Shkel, Irvine, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for glass-blowing on a microscopic level includes the steps of defining a plurality of microholes in a wafer, disposing a sheet of thermally formable material onto the wafer covering the microholes, heating the sheet of thermally formable material until a predetermined degree of plasticity is achieved, applying self-induced fluidic pressure by expansion of the heated trapped gas in the microholes to the sheet of thermally formable material, while the sheet is still plastic, and simultaneously forming a plurality of blown micro-objects in the sheet on the wafer by means of continued application of pressure for a predetermined time.