A new technology for revealing the flow profile in integrated lab-on-a-chip

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 5060-5064

  Liu, Tian Cai ^a,b   Wohland, Thorsten ^b   Watt, Frank ^b   Bettiol, Andrew ^b   Udalagama, Chammika ^b   Wang, Li Ping ^b  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

flow profile; fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; lab on a chip; nanochannel

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BIOMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; FLOW PROFILE; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NANO CHANNELS; PROTON BEAM WRITING; SPEED OF THE FLOW;

LAB-ON-A-CHIP;

EID: 84864705883     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4737520     Document Type: Article

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