Design and development of application-specific microfluidic components for flow control

Bai Xu; James Castracane; Bruce Altemus; Jeroen Keijmel; Martijn Heuzinkveld

doi:10.1117/12.478149

17 January 2003 Design and development of application-specific microfluidic components for flow control

Bai Xu, James Castracane, Bruce Altemus, Jeroen Keijmel, Martijn Heuzinkveld

Proceedings Volume 4982, Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.478149
Event: Micromachining and Microfabrication, 2003, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

There has been a growing interest in the research of microfluidic management systems, e.g., for DNA sequencing devices, biological cell manipulation systems, chemical analysis systems and microdosage systems. microfluidic management is crucial capability in most biomedical nanodevices and micro fuel cells using methanol as fuel. It involves the manipulation of fluids ranging from a scale of nano to millimeters. Basic building components for a microfluidic management system are microvalves and micropump s together with the interconnect fluidic channels . Micropumps can have passive and/or active valve. Because of the increasing functionality in portable electronic devices and systems, the micropumps and mic rovalves should be compact, reliable, long-lifetime and high energy efficient. In this report, the design, fabrication and modeling of a low power, low voltage, leak proof microfluidic management systems will be discussed.

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Bai Xu, James Castracane, Bruce Altemus, Jeroen Keijmel, and Martijn Heuzinkveld "Design and development of application-specific microfluidic components for flow control", Proc. SPIE 4982, Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems, (17 January 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.478149

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