Rapid prototyping of PMMA microfluidic chips utilizing a CO2 laser

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1125-1133

  Hong, Ting Fu ^a   Ju, Wei Jhong ^b   Wu, Ming Chang ^a   Tai, Chang Hsien ^a   Tsai, Chien Hsiung ^a   Fu, Lung Ming ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CO2 laser; Microfluidic chip; PMMA; Unfocused ablation technique

Indexed keywords

CO2 LASER; COMMAND SIGNAL; DIRECT-WRITING; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MICRO FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; PMMA; POST-MACHINING; SMOOTH CHANNEL; SURFACE QUALITIES; UNFOCUSED ABLATION TECHNIQUE; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

ABLATION; ASPECT RATIO; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; FLUIDIC DEVICES; JOB ANALYSIS; METHANOL; MICROCHANNELS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TOOLS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 78649747831     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-010-0633-0     Document Type: Article

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