Fabrication of Transparent and Conductive Microdevices

Microsystems and microdevices can shrink a whole laboratory into a single chip. Due to its small size, such systems are cost effective, as they require small sample sizes and analysis time. Since the silicon-based microchip cannot provide optical transparency, there is a rising interest towards glassbased microchips and their possible applications where optical transparency during the analysis procedure is of high importance. Our objective is to fabricate microdevices and sensors using laser direct writing and thin film deposition techniques. Applying these two methods to transparent materials will open new avenues in microdevice production by enabling the realization of transparent and conductive platforms.