Generic Sample Preparation for Different Microfluidic Platforms
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
Original Kurzfassung:
Sample preparation plays a crucial role
in several medical applications. Microfluidic devices or
Labs-on-Chips (LoCs) got established as a suitable solution to
realize this task in a miniaturized, integrated, and automatic
fashion. Over the years, a variety of different microfluidic
platforms emerged, which all have their respective pros and
cons. Accordingly, numerous approaches for sample preparation
have been proposed?each specialized on a single platform only.
In this work, we propose an idea towards a generic sample
preparation approach which will generalize the constraints of
the different microfluidic platforms and, by this, will provide
a platform-independent sample preparation method. This will
allow designers to quickly check what existing platform is most
suitable for the considered task and to easily support upcoming
and future microfluidic platforms as well. We illustrate the
applicability of the proposed method with examples for various
platforms.
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