Quantitative permittivity measurements of nanoliter Liquid volumes in microfluidic channels to 40 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3279-3288

  Booth, James C ^a   Orloff, Nathan D ^a   Mateu, Jordi ^b,c   Janezic, Michael ^a   Rinehart, Matthew ^d   Beall, James A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguides (CPWs); microelectrodes; microfluidics; microwave integrated circuits; microwave spectroscopy; permittivity measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY; CONTINUOUS FREQUENCY; CPW TRANSMISSION LINE; CROSS SECTION; DISTRIBUTED CAPACITANCE; DISTRIBUTED CIRCUITS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLUID VOLUMES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTEGRATED DEVICE; LIQUID VOLUME; LOADED TRANSMISSION LINES; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MICROMETER-SCALE; MODEL PARAMETERS; NANOLITERS; ON-WAFER CALIBRATION; ON-WAFER MEASUREMENTS; PER UNIT LENGTH; PLANAR MEASUREMENTS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEST STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION LINE; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC LINES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDIC DEVICES; FLUIDS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MEASUREMENTS; METHANOL; MICROELECTRODES; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 78149469036     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2047141     Document Type: Article

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