A highly uniform lamination micromixer with wedge shaped inlet channels for time resolved infrared spectroscopy

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 889-897

  Buchegger, Wolfgang ^a   Wagner, Christoph ^a   Lendl, Bernhard ^a   Kraft, Martin ^b   Vellekoop, Michael J ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b CTR CARINTHIAN TECH RESEARCH AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diffusion micromixer; Infrared spectroscopy; Microfluidic; Time resolved

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CFD SIMULATIONS; CHANNEL INLETS; COLOR MEASUREMENTS; DEVICE MATERIALS; DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; FLUID MIXING; INLET CHANNELS; MICRO MIXERS; MIDINFRARED; MILLISECOND RANGE; MIXING TIME; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; PROTON EXCHANGE REACTION; SAMPLE CONSUMPTION; SILICON MICROMACHINING; TIME RESOLVED; TIME RESOLVED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; TIME-RESOLVED INFRARED;

CALCIUM FLUORIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUIDS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INLET FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; LAMINATING; MIXERS (MACHINERY); OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79955979605     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-010-0722-0     Document Type: Article

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