SU-8 photolithography and its impact on microfluidics

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Handbook: Fabrication, Implementation, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 231-268

  Martinez Duarte, Rodrigo ^a   Madou, Marc J ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

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