What is a Microfabrication machine?

A microfabrication machine is a processing machine that performs micro-precision machining in micron units. The materials to be miniaturized are not limited to metals, but also to resins, polymers, and inorganic materials. In recent years, cutting machines that enable program control in units of 10 nm have been released, and the miniaturization scale is advancing day by day. increase Microfabrication machines in a broad sense include electric discharge machines, wire electric discharge machines, jig borers, and laser machines, and microfabrication is performed using all of these machines. When handling these microfabrication machines, temperature control such as room temperature and operator skill are also very important.

Application of Microfabrication machine

In recent years, microfabrication technology has been required in all industrial fields and is used in a wide range of applications. In the semiconductor and electronic parts industry, with the miniaturization of devices, it is indispensable for processing package molds, various parts, and in the medical equipment industry, parts with microchannels such as biochips, parts with fine electrode structures, etc. It will be a processing technology. It is possible to realize fine structures that cannot be machined with ordinary end mills, such as heat radiation fins with ultra-fine pitch that could not be machined in the past, hole machining with hole pitch on the order of microns, and protrusion arrangement structure on the order of submicrons.

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