TY - BOOK ID - 107409936 TI - Microstructuring of Glasses AU - Hülsenberg, Dagmar AU - Bismarck, Alexander AU - Harnisch, Alf AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2008 SN - 9783540498889 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg DB - UniCat KW - Electronics and optics of solids KW - Solid state physics KW - Materials sciences KW - Electrical engineering KW - Chemical technology KW - composieten KW - materiaalkennis KW - nanotechniek KW - fysica KW - chemische technologie KW - optica UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:107409936 AB - As microstructured glass becomes increasingly important for microsystems technology, the main application fields include micro-fluidic systems, micro-analysis systems, sensors, micro-actuators and implants. And, because glass has quite distinct properties from silicon, PMMA and metals, applications exist where only glass devices meet the requirements. The main advantages of glass derive from its amorphous nature, the precondition for its - theoretically - direction-independent geometric structurability. Microstructuring of Glasses deals with the amorphous state, various glass compositions and their properties, the interactions between glasses and the electromagnetic waves used to modify it. Also treated in detail are methods for influencing the geometrical microstructure of glasses by mechanical, chemical, thermal, optical, and electrical treatment, and the methods and equipment required to produce actual microdevices. ER -