A low-cost, normally closed, solenoid valve for non-contact dispensing in the sub-μl range

Micromachines

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-21

  Bammesberger, Stefan Borja ^a   Kartmann, Sabrina ^a   Tanguy, Laurent ^b   Liang, Dong ^b   Mutschler, Klaus ^a   Ernst, Andreas ^a,c   Zengerle, Roland ^a,b   Koltay, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Micromachining and Information Technology   (Germany)

^c BIOFLUIDIX GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disposable; Non contact dispensing; Normally closed; Solenoid valve

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION PRINCIPLES; DISPENSING VALVES; DISPOSABLE; LIQUID VOLUME; MICRO-DISPENSING; NON-CONTACT; NORMALLY CLOSED;

SOLENOID VALVES;

EID: 84885119990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2072666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/mi4010009     Document Type: Article

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