Experimental and numerical investigation into the joule heating effect for electrokinetically driven microfluidic chips utilizing total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 499-507

  Fu, Lung Ming ^a   Wang, Jing Hui ^b   Luo, Wen Bo ^c   Lin, Che Hsin ^b  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Joule heating effect; Microfluidic chip; Total internal reflection fluorescence microscope

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; ELECTROOSMOSIS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GLASS INDUSTRY; HEATING; JOULE HEATING; MICROSCOPES; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOANALYSIS;

CHANNEL DEPTHS; CHANNEL WALLS; DETECTION SCHEMES; DIFFUSION LAYERS; ELECTRO-OSMOTIC FLOWS; ELECTROKINETIC; EPI-FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPES; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATIONS; INTENSITY INFORMATIONS; JOULE HEATING EFFECT; MEASURED RESULTS; MEASUREMENT SENSITIVITIES; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEMS; MICRO-FLUIDIC CHANNELS; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; MICROSCOPE COVER GLASS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION MODELS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; STERN LAYERS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENTS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPIES; WALL-TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTIONS; WORKING DISTANCES;

BIOCHIPS;

EID: 63649084344     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0328-y     Document Type: Article

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