Life Microfab

Life MicroFab

Glass Microfabrication Services

Life MicroFab (LMF) provides all aspects of glass microfabrication services for OEM's looking for glass microdevices, thru glass vias (TGVs) or glass bio-array platforms.

Utilizing the proprietary APEX™  photo-structurable glass  from Life BioScience, LMF is able to offer clients a full range of services from product design and development to prototyping and high volume production. Custom microarrays, glass microdevices, TGVs, microfluidic devices, glass microchannels, glass wells and glass micropillars are available for fabrication.

Thru Glass Vias

Thru Glass Vias (TGV)

Custom Hexagon Shaped Nanowells

Custom Hexagon Shaped Nanowells

Spiral Device in Glass

Spiral Device in Glass

Life BioScience's (LBSI) APEX™ Glass ceramic material enables the precision engineering and fabrication in high volumes of glass microdevices that feature 3D glass microstructures like nanowells, micropillars, microchannels, and TGVs.

LMF will work directly with your product design group to develop a fabrication process for your unique designs for applications like microarrays, bioarrays, microfilters, microfluidics, IC packaging, passive MEMS, and other glass microdevices.

SEM of Micropillars

A Field of 25µm Diameter Micropillars

APEX™ Glass is a photo-structurable glass that allows us to utilize time-tested photolithography processing and manufacturing techniques that enables a low cost and high volume capability to fabricate parts in glass and ceramic.

To learn more about our capabilities and how they might help you, please contact us or visit our OEM Design Rules page where you'll find documents that describe our capabilities in greater detail.