ibidi Micro Illumination System
SKU:
IB-76000
The ibidi Micro Illumination System is a compact, user-friendly benchtop platform that brings light-induced microfabrication into everyday laboratories without the need for a cleanroom. Compatible with coverslip chambers like µ‑Slides and µ‑Dishes, it supports a broad range of 2D and 3D methods, including photopatterning, hydrogel microstructuring, and photo-click chemistry. Users can precisely control where and when cells attach, migrate, and organize into tissues, enabling the generation of relevant microphysiological in vitro models.
Micropatterning
- Photopatterning: high-precision surface patterning guides cellular behavior. Spatially controlled surface functionalization or protein patterns define e.g., cell adhesion and migration
- Photo-induced wounding: light-induced generation of cell-free areas in confluent monolayers for wound healing and migration studies
- Spatial and temporal control of photo click chemistry
Microfluidics
- Fabrication of hydrogel-based microfluidics in ibidi Channel-Slides, enabling perfused microchannels, bifurcations, and flow restrictions
- Fabrication of fluidic systems that guide perfusion, mechanical cues, and chemical gradients—for lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip platforms (e.g., using the µ-Slide Tissue Engineering)
Microstructuring
- Photolithography and soft lithography with positive or negative photoresists
- Photopolymerization of photocrosslinkable hydrogels and bioinks (e.g., methacrylated gelatin (GelMA), collagen, hyaluronic acid, or PEG-DA, PEG-NB) to create defined 2D/3D microarchitectures
- Light-induced structuring of bulk materials or surfaces using 365 nm photoinitiators (e.g., Irgacure, LAP)
| Light Source | High-power UV LED |
| Wavelength | 365 nm |
| Intensity | 20 mW/cm² (@20%) – 100 mW/cm² (@100%) |
| Time | 1 s – 59 min, 59 s |
| Divergence | ≤ 3° |
| Illumination area | ⌀ 70 mm |
| Compatible photomasks | 3" masks, thickness 1.4–1.8 mm |
| Nominal resolution | 2 µm |
| Recommended feature size | >10 µm |
| Outer dimensions (l × w × h) | 200 mm × 215 mm × 260 mm |
| Weight | 6.6 kg / 14.6 lbs |
| Material | Multi-material construction |
