A highly parallel picoliter dispenser with an integrated, novel capillary channel structure

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 171-177

  Steinert, Chris P ^a   Goutier, Ingo ^a   Gutmann, Oliver ^a   Sandmaier, Hermann ^b   Daub, Martina ^a   De Heij, Bas ^a   Zengerle, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Micromachining and Information Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biochips; Microarrays; Microchannel; Microfluidics; Non contact printing; Picoliter dispenser

Indexed keywords

BIOCHIPS; MICROARRAYS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; NON-CONTACT PRINTING; PICOLITER DISPENSERS;

ACTUATORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DISPENSERS; ELASTOMERS; FLUIDICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NOZZLES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PRINTING; VISCOSITY;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 4444276761     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2004.04.007     Document Type: Article

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