Digital implementations for integrated microfluidic sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7318, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ahmadi, A ^a   Nichols, J ^a   Hoorfar, M ^a   Najjaran, H ^a   Holzman, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bi layer structure; Conductance sampling; Digital microfluidics; Microdroplet

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; BI-LAYER; BI-LAYER STRUCTURE; COMPLETE SYSTEM; CONDUCTANCE SAMPLING; CONDUCTANCE STATE; CONDUCTANCE VALUES; CONDUCTIVE FLUIDS; DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCE MEASUREMENTS; DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENTS; DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS; DIRECTIONAL ACTUATION; ELECTRICAL SENSING; ELECTRO WETTING; FLUID CONTROL; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; LINEAR ELECTRODES; MICRO DROPLETS; MICRODROPLET; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

DROP FORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SENSORS; SOLIDS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 69549120237     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.817215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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