Conference paper
A modular reconfigurable digital microfluidics platform
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark1
Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark2
Embedded Systems Engineering, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark3
Nano Bio Integrated Systems, Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark4
Copenhagen Center for Health Technology, Centers, Technical University of Denmark5
Miniaturizing the traditional wet lab processes and realizing the full potential of lab-on-a-chip technology (LOC) has been a great challenges for scientists and engineers in the quest of providing health care where such does not exists, or to increase lab efficiency and lower the operational cost. A range of practical LOC fabrication technologies has already been demonstrated, and as a result, the research of real life applications has been steadily increasing.
However, due to the variety of used technologies and LOC form factors, it often requires a modification or even a complete redesign of the available instrumentation systems. Standardization and flexible instrumentation has seen limited development in the LOC field even though developing on all application levels has been proven as an effective way to stimulate a growth in a research field.
To address this, we present a modular digital microfluidics (DMF) instrumentation platform and a concept of integrated chip-instrument co-design that has the potential to solve a wide range of LOC instrumentation challenges.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Pages: | 1-6 |
| Proceedings: | 20th Symposium on Design, Test, Integration & Packaging of MEMS and MOEMS |
| ISBN: | 1538661985 , 1538661993 , 1538662000 , 9781538661987 , 9781538661994 and 9781538662007 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/DTIP.2018.8394194 |
| ORCIDs: | Svendsen, Winnie Edith and Madsen, Jan |
Biosensors Computer architecture DMF Electrodes Fabrication Hardware Instruments LOC form factors LOC instrumentation challenges application levels bioMEMS flexible instrumentation health care integrated chip-instrument co-design lab efficiency lab-on-a-chip lab-on-a-chip technology low operational cost microfluidics modular reconfigurable digital microfluidics platform practical LOC fabrication technologies real life applications standardization traditional wet lab processes
