Microfabrication of a digital microfluidic platform integrated with an on-chip electrochemical cell

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Yu, Yuhua ^a   Chen, Jianfeng ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Yang, Sheng ^a   Fan, Shih Kang ^b   Zhou, Jia ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL MODULES; ELECTROWETTING ON DIELECTRICS; MICROFABRICATION PROCESS; MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORMS; MULTIFUNCTIONALITY; ONE-STEP ANNEALING;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; MICROANALYSIS; MICROFABRICATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

LAB-ON-A-CHIP;

EID: 84884832603     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/23/9/095025     Document Type: Article

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