Plastic lab-on-a-chip for fluorescence excitation with integrated organic semiconductor lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8179-8186

  Vannahme, Christoph ^a   Klinkhammer, Sönke ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a   Mappes, Timo ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ESTERS; FLUORESCENCE; INTEGRATION; LASER EXCITATION; LASERS; PROFITABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES; THERMAL EVAPORATION; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS;

BIO-MEDICAL; DEEP ULTRAVIOLET; DICYANOMETHYLENE; FIRST ORDER; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION; FLUORESCENT MARKERS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INTEGRATED LASER; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; LASER DYES; LASER LIGHTS; LASER MATERIALS; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MODEL SYSTEM; NANO-STRUCTURED; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; PARALLEL FABRICATION PROCESS; POINT OF CARE; THERMAL BONDING; THERMAL IMPRINT; TRIS(8-HYDROXYQUINOLINE) ALUMINUM;

ORGANIC LASERS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLASTICS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 79955428360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008179     Document Type: Article

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