Active control for droplet-based microfluidics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6416, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ting, Teck Hui ^a   Yap, Yit Fatt ^a   Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a   Wong, Teck Neng ^a   Chai, John Chee Kiong ^a   Yobas, Levent ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Droplet microfluidics; Lab on chip; Optical detection; Polymeric micromachining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DROPS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROMACHINING; PHOTODETECTORS; SURFACE TENSION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DROPLET MICROFLUIDICS; LAB ON CHIP; OPTICAL DETECTION; POLYMERIC MICROMACHINING;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 34247342863     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.696496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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