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MIT OpenCourseWare
Projects in Microscale Engineering for the Life Sciences
- Instructors
- Prof. Dennis Freeman, Prof. Martha Gray, Prof. Alexander Aranyosi
- Term
- Spring 2007
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 30 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare HST.410J Projects in Microscale Engineering for the Life Sciences, Spring 2007, Prof. Dennis Freeman, Prof. Martha Gray, Prof. Alexander Aranyosi — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Readings
Lecture Notes
9 files
Labs
7 files
Assignments
10 files
- Problem Set 1 Download
- Problem Set 2 Download
- Problem Set 3 Download
- Problem Set 4 Download
- Problem Set 5 Download
- Project Ideas Download
- Mask Design for Chip Download
- Overview of Lab Equipment Download
- sqerferr.m, for Computing Squared Error Between an Erf Function and a Data Set Download
- MATLAB? file, sqerferrc.m, for Computing Squared Error Between an Erfc Function and a Data Set… Download
Other materials from this course
- refoldnature2005.pdf Download
- This section contains the readings for the course (toner_2006.pdf) Download
- 2005nature.pdf Download
37 images
- Tray of circular silicon wafers Open ↗
- A cube-shaped metal device with a door on the front Open ↗
- Very clean circular wafers are removed from the cleaner Open ↗
- Man in clean suit inspects clean wafers Open ↗
- Close-up of clean, reflective, semi-metallic wafers Open ↗
- Student adjusting microscope to inspect wafer Open ↗
- Brown bottle of SU-8 (2035) Open ↗
- Small glob of SU-8 is poured onto the wafer Open ↗
- Glob of SU-8 on wafer Open ↗
- Wafer is carefully transferred to a hot plate Open ↗
- Wafer is transferred to a larger, also-circular wafer Open ↗
- Student leaning over to place wafers onto hot plate Open ↗
- Stack of two wafers sitting on hot plate Open ↗
- Two hot plates side by side, one with wafers Open ↗
- Students examine thin plastic sleeve Open ↗
- Mask clamped in place, aligned over wafer Open ↗
- Circular tray slides beneath where mask is held Open ↗
- Flexible plastic circle is placed carefully onto tray Open ↗
- Plastic circle is adjusted with forceps Open ↗
- Wafer is carefully placed atop plastic circle Open ↗
- Plastic is held in place by small clamp Open ↗
- Students in goggles watch as UV light irradiates masked wafer Open ↗
- UV light shines through transparencies in mask, onto wafer Open ↗
- UV device shown from another angle Open ↗
- Label on the bottle of SU-8 developer Open ↗
- After a few minutes in the SU-8 developer, the pattern of the mask starts to emerge on the wafer Open ↗
- Wafer is laid flat and blown dry with nitrogen gas Open ↗
- This close-up of the previous image shows that the center of the wafer is dry, while the outer edge… Open ↗
- Stream of nitrogen gas dries center of wafer first Open ↗
- Close-up of drying wafer Open ↗
- Dried wafer with pattern clearly visible Open ↗
- Students view magnified wafer patterns on video microscope Open ↗
- Close-up of wafer pattern on video microscope screen Open ↗
- Close-up of wafer pattern on video microscope screen Open ↗
- Wafer with abnormal pattern Open ↗
- Detailed features of a wafer magnified on video microscope screen Open ↗
- Wafer placed beneath microscope lens, image appears on side screen Open ↗
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Microfabrication ( PDF )
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Lecture 3: Cells and membranes ( PDF - 1.4 MB )
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Lecture 4: Cells and membranes (cont.) ( PDF )
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Lecture 5: Models of diffusion and cell experiment ( PDF )
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Lecture 6: Laminar flow ( PDF )
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Lecture 7: Data analysis using MATLAB® ( PDF )
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Lecture 8: Research applications ( PDF )
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Lecture 9: Research paper discussion
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Lecture 10: Visit research lab
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Lecture 11: Cell traps ( PDF )
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Lecture 12: Cell traps (cont.)
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Lecture 13: Project brainstorming
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Lecture 19: Device fabrication
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Lecture 24: Project presentation Dry runs
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Lecture 25: Projects
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Lecture 26: Project presentations
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Dennis Freeman, Prof. Martha Gray, Prof. Alexander Aranyosi, HST.410J Projects in Microscale Engineering for the Life Sciences, Spring 2007.
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