Improved design of low-pressure fluidic microvalves

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1487-1493

  Pandolfi, Anna ^a   Ortiz, Michael ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOGRAPHY; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SWELLING; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

CROSS-CHANNEL ARCHITECTURE; MONOLITHIC ELASTOMERIC ON-OFF MICROVALVES; MULTILAYER SOFT LITHOGRAPHY (MSL);

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 34547660120     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/17/8/010     Document Type: Article

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