Soft Lithography for Microfluidic Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and Optical Devices

Unconventional Nanopatterning Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 293-323

  Mitrovski, Svetlana M ^a   Avasthy, Shraddha ^a   Erickson, Evan M ^a   Stewart, Matthew E ^a   Rogers, John A ^a   Nuzzo, Ralph G ^a  

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Author keywords

Concentration gradients and microfluidic devices; MEMS and optical device soft lithography; Optics and microfluidics

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EID: 84890968079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470405789.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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