Biology – Quantitative Biology – Quantitative Methods
Scientific paper
2006-08-25
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 063711 (2006)
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Quantitative Methods
12 pages, 9 figures, journal article
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2213152
We present a maskless microscope projection lithography system (MPLS), in which photomasks have been replaced by a Digital Micromirror Device type spatial light modulator (DMD, Texas Instruments). Employing video projector technology high resolution patterns, designed as bitmap images on the computer, are displayed using a micromirror array consisting of about 786000 tiny individually addressable tilting mirrors. The DMD, which is located in the image plane of an infinity corrected microscope, is projected onto a substrate placed in the focal plane of the microscope objective. With a 5x(0.25 NA) Fluar microscope objective, a fivefold reduction of the image to a total size of 9 mm2 and a minimum feature size of 3.5 microns is achieved. Our system can be used in the visible range as well as in the near UV (with a light intensity of up to 76 mW/cm2 around the 365 nm Hg-line). We developed an inexpensive and simple method to enable exact focusing and controlling of the image quality of the projected patterns. Our MPLS has originally been designed for the light-directed in situ synthesis of DNA microarrays. One requirement is a high UV intensity to keep the fabrication process reasonably short. Another demand is a sufficient contrast ratio over small distances (of about 5 microns). This is necessary to achieve a high density of features (i.e. separated sites on the substrate at which different DNA sequences are synthesized in parallel fashion) while at the same time the number of stray light induced DNA sequence errors is kept reasonably small. We demonstrate the performance of the apparatus in light-directed DNA chip synthesis and discuss its advantages and limitations.
Mai Timo
Michel Wolfgang
Naiser Thomas
Ott Albrecht
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