Bring Your Glass and Silicon Innovations to Life with the Citrogene Solution™
Citrogene Incorporated was founded with a single mission: to become the premier partner for high-precision glass and silicon microfabrication. We provide advanced manufacturing solutions that enable innovation across the Life Sciences, Semiconductor, Microelectronics, Photonics, and Consumer Electronics industries.

From early-stage prototypes to high-volume manufacturing, Citrogene delivers precision components and complete assemblies with the speed, quality, and scalability required to support today’s most demanding applications.

Why Glass and Silicon?
At Citrogene, we focus exclusively on glass and silicon because these materials offer a unique combination of properties that cannot be matched by most engineering materials. They provide exceptional:

Mechanical strength
Optical transparency and low fluorescence background
Liquid and gas impermeability
Excellent chemical resistance
Superior scratch resistance
Outstanding thermal stability
Biocompatibility
Environmental sustainability through recyclability
These characteristics make glass and silicon the preferred materials for next-generation biomedical devices, microfluidic systems, photonic components, semiconductor packaging, MEMS devices, sensors, and advanced consumer electronics.

The Challenge
Although glass and silicon are exceptional materials, they are also among the most difficult to machine.

Conventional fabrication methods—including mechanical machining, dicing, laser ablation, waterjet cutting, and traditional wet or dry etching—often struggle to produce the complex, high-aspect-ratio microstructures, curved geometries, and precision features demanded by today’s engineers and product designers.

More recently, selective laser-assisted etching (SLE) has emerged as an alternative manufacturing process. While capable of producing complex structures, SLE is typically expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to scale economically for production.

The Citrogene Solution™
Citrogene has developed a suite of proprietary microfabrication technologies that overcome these limitations.

Known collectively as The Citrogene Solution™, our manufacturing platform delivers exceptional precision, superior surface quality, and outstanding repeatability while remaining fast, cost-effective, and highly scalable.

Unlike many conventional fabrication techniques, the Citrogene Solution™ eliminates the need for expensive nanofabrication equipment and minimizes or completely removes many secondary processing steps. The result is a manufacturing process that significantly reduces cost and lead time while enabling features and geometries that were previously difficult—or impossible—to produce.

Whether you need a single prototype or millions of production parts, the Citrogene Solution™ is designed to scale with your business.

Let’s Build What’s Next
Whether you’re developing a breakthrough medical device, an advanced photonic component, a semiconductor package, or simply have an idea sketched on a napkin, our engineering team is ready to help.

Click the Connect button to schedule a conversation with one of our technical experts. We’ll discuss your application, review your design challenges, and show you how the Citrogene Solution™ can transform your concept into a manufacturable, high-performance product.

Citrogene Incorporated was founded with the mission to become the premier high precision glass and silicon microfabrication partner providing microfabrication services that address the needs of the ever-expanding Life Sciences, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductor, Microelectronics and Photonics Markets.  We have established that we can provide fast, and cost effective components and full assemblies and be able to scalable to high volume production.

Here at Citrogene we only work with glass and/or silicon as we know that glass and silicon bring a set of very unique properties such as mechanical strength, liquid and gas impermeability, optical transmission, low fluorescence background, scratch resistance, thermally stable, chemical resistance, biocompatibility and recyclability it can be recycled helping the environment. Because of these unique properties, they are perfect for devices used in life sciences and biomedical applications as well as a number of applications in semiconductor/microelectronics, photonics and consumer electronics.

However, the traditional fabrication methods which are being used today to machine glass, such as mechanical cutting/dicing, laser ablation, waterjet cutting, and wet/dry etching are not capable of creating complex high aspect ratio microstructures with curved features, that meet the requirements that designers and engineers are looking to achieve to make their ideas a reality. Recently, there has been developments in selective laser assisted etching to make these parts. However, the process is very costly, time consuming and not scalable.

Here at Citrogene, we have developed a number of advanced microfabrication technologies to address all these problems and we are working with customer everyday to help them to achieve their design and cost goals. We call this new technology the Citrogene Solution™ and it has proven to provide outstanding quality and precision that is easily scalable from prototype to mass production. The Citrogene Solution is also fast, and economical and more importantly it does not require the need for costly nano-fabrication devices or post processing steps that as what is required with the more traditional methods.

Click the “Connect” button and set up a time to speak with one of our technical experts regarding your applications, design challenges or your napkin idea and they tell you how the Citrogene Solution can help you address your needs and bring your glass ideas to life.