Micro-lens forming method by means of wet method side guide

Abstract

The invention discloses a forming method of wet lateral guiding lenticular, which is characterized by the following: depositing the sacrificial layer on the base material surface; coating the photoresist on the sacrificial layer surface; affirming the base plate surface position of lenticular; adapting photoetching process to remove the photoresist except lenticular caliber scale if the lenticular displays compact distribution; regarding several transverse micrometer scales of the lowest lenticular as opening; removing the corrosion-proof agent in the opening scale; adapting the auxiliary photoresist to remove the exposed sacrificial layer; blending the main etching liquid and auxiliary etching liquid in proportion; placing the removed structure to be corroded in the mixing liquid; cleaning the element; drying the element.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a microlens array with high resistance to damage, in particular to a method for forming a microlens array by a wet method side guide. The method can realize the formation of microcolumn lens arrays made of various materials such as quartz and glass. Background technique [0002] The fabrication method of continuous relief microlens array has been a research hotspot all the time. The existing microlens array processing methods include photolithography thermal melting method, gray mask method, moving mask method, laser direct writing method, etc., see Micro-optical components, systems and applications, written by HANS PETER HERZIG in Switzerland, translated by Zhou Haixian, etc. The above-mentioned methods are mainly used to shape the microstructure of the resist material. In order to obtain micro-elements that can be used in practice, it is usually necessary to use ICP dry etching to convert the resis...

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Problems solved by technology

During this process, due to the pollution of metal ions, carbon polymers and reaction products, various defects will grow on the surface of the component, which will seriously affect the optical quality of the component; in addition, the ICP dry process equipment is expensive, the consumption of etching gas is large, and the etching process is difficult. For a long time, these problems have increased the cost of components

Although the diamond turning technology does not need to pre-fabricate photoresist microlenses, there are two key shortcomings in making microlenses with diamond turning equipment: (1) It is difficult to process brittle materials such as quartz (the existing diamond Knife equipment is mainly used for processing plastics, metals and other materials); (2) After the turning is completed, there are car marks on the surface of the component, which requires a complicated polishing process for subsequent processing

[0003] In short, since the traditional microlens production needs to use ICP plasma equipment for dry etching, the microlenses made of resist material are converted into high-damage resistant quartz and glass microlens arrays required for practical applications. , the microlens array is polluted by metal ions, carbon polymers and etching products, not only has a large number of defects (dirty spots, bumps, etc.) on the surface, but also the yield of components is extremely low

This leads to a rapid increase in the production cost of microlenses, which severely limits the expansion of the application range of components.

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