KVS Research Award 2008 and STW poster prize in the category ‘Most innovative research 2008’ for BIOS students

Summary:

The fabrication process for high quality, large, thin film stroopwafers is presented. Results from recent studies on alternative wafer materials emphasized the growing need for organic wafer solutions for food applications. The poster shows the high-throughput fabrication process of stroopwafers as well as a characterization of the stroopwafers.

Conclusions:

•	New fabrication techniques such as M.I.L.K.© etching and Iron heat bonding proved to be successful for stroopwafer fabrication.

•	High step coverage as well as a high reproducibility has been achieved.

•	The STS showed a low-uniformity of the stroop.

•	Further research has to be done on the mysterious bite-like artefacts on the stroopwafer which have not been explained so far.

Rogier Veenhuis, Robert-Jan Raterink, both student members of the BIOS group and Harald Profijt, member of the TST group

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