Large-area and high-resolution distortion measurement based on moire fringe method for hot embossing process
A moiré fringe approach is developed to identify simultaneously the global and local distortions in hot-embossed polymeric samples. A square grid pattern with a pitch of 63.5 μm is hot-embossed on the polymer substrate. When a reference grid, a polymeric film with the same pattern, is placed on top...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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Optical Society of America
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71162 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0417-445X |
| Summary: | A moiré fringe approach is developed to identify simultaneously the global and local distortions in hot-embossed polymeric samples. A square grid pattern with a pitch of 63.5 μm is hot-embossed on the polymer substrate. When a reference grid, a polymeric film with the same pattern, is placed on top of the sample, a moiré fringe pattern is observed and recorded by a document scanner. The deviation of the intersections of the fringes from their ideal positions presents the residual distortion in the sample. With different sample-reference rotation angles eight images are acquired for the same sample to achieve the optimal result by a data fitting technique. The validity of this method is proved by the self-consistency of the results from the eight images. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time distortion quantification has been achieved both in a large area up to that of a scanner and with a high resolution at the level of 1 μm. Furthermore, we do not use any expensive instrument, nor need to measure the sample–reference rotation angle or position the sample precisely, and the process is run automatically by a computer instead of manual operation. |
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