Axxicon
The attached image, from Netherlands-based specialist mould maker Axxicon Moulds Eindhoven, shows the injection moulding process of a micro fluidic substrate for a lab-on-a-disc in vitro diagnostic (IVD) point-of-care test device. Intricate levels of detail are moulded into the substrate using a proprietary process. Axxicon Moulds Eindhoven enables the manufacturing of lab-on-a-disc and lab-on-a-chip in cooperation with diagnostics and life sciences companies, from prototyping to (mass) production.
The company’s skills are not only required to replicate micro structures, but also to adhere to precise measurements, made possible by a laboratory with highly specialised equipment like a Zeiss Prismo Super ACC (Accuracy) navigator measuring machine as well as an atomic force microscope and an optical microscope. The depths of the micro structures vary from 50 μm to 200 μm whilst the width varies from 50 μm to a few millimetres. The roughness of the bottom of the structures is 0.08 μm Ra. The roughness of the surface is of optical quality (about 2 nm).