Microthermoforming of microfluidic substrates by soft lithography (μTSL): Optimization using design of experiments

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Focke, M ^a   Kosse, D ^b   Al Bamerni, D ^a   Lutz, S ^b   Muller C ^a   Reinecke, H ^a,b   Zengerle, R ^a,b   Von Stetten, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Micromachining and Information Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PLASMA; BLOOD-PLASMA SEPARATION; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; DEFECT-FREE; DRAFT-ANGLES; EMPIRICAL PROCESS; ERROR PATTERNS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC STRUCTURES; MOLDING PRESSURE; MOLDING TEMPERATURE; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZED PROCESS; OPTIMUM PARAMETER SET; PRE-STRETCHING; PROCESS PARAMETERS; RELATIVE IMPACT; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; WHOLE BLOOD;

BLOOD; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MOLDING; OPTIMIZATION;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 80555123672     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/21/11/115002     Document Type: Article

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