Method for making microstructural surgical instruments

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PATENT NO 5317938
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07822021

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A method of making a microsurgical cutter from a flat planar substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface comprises the steps of (a) forming a photoresist mask layer on the top surface in the pattern of the microsurgical instrument, the mask layer having an edge portion formed in a predetermined pattern therein; and then (b) etching isotropically the top surface of the substrate through the top surface to the bottom surface so that the top surface and bottom surface meet at a cutting edge portion, with the cutting edge portion having a configuration corresponding to the edge portion of the mask layer. The substrates may be formed from semiconductor materials such as silicon, silicon carbide, sapphire and diamond.

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MCNC3021 CORNWALLIS DRIVE P O BOX 12889 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK NC 27709-2889

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
de, Juan Jr Eugene Phoenix, MD 29 2408
Jones, Gary W Raleigh, NC 63 2740
Jones, Susan K Raleigh, NC 5 146
Reisman, Arnold Raleigh, NC 27 1112
Van, Winkle Jon Durham, NC 3 140

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