Abstract
We have fabricated a planar chip on a fused quartz substrate with a two-dimensional channel array for capillary electrophoresis applications. The first separation dimension consists of a single channel 16 mm long, 80 m wide and 3-7 m deep; the second separation dimension of an array of 500 channels, 5 mm long, 900 nm wide and 3-6 m deep. The channels were fabricated using reactive ion etching under maximum anisotropic etching conditions, yielding an aspect ratio of up to 5 for the narrow channels. The microchannels were closed using a novel NaOH assisted bonding technique.