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Microfluidic Large-Scale Integration

Thorsen, T
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Maerkl, SJ  
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Quake, SR
2002
Science

We developed high-density microfluidic chips that contain plumbing networks with thousands of micromechanical valves and hundreds of individually addressable chambers. These fluidic devices are analogous to electronic integrated circuits fabricated using large-scale integration. A key component of these networks is the fluidic multiplexor, which is a combinatorial array of binary valve patterns that exponentially increases the processing power of a network by allowing complex fluid manipulations with a minimal number of inputs. We used these integrated microfluidic networks to construct the microfluidic analog of a comparator array and a microfluidic memory storage device whose behavior resembles random-access memory.

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research article
DOI
10.1126/science.1076996
Author(s)
Thorsen, T
Maerkl, SJ  
Quake, SR
Date Issued

2002

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Published in
Science
Volume

298

Issue

5593

Start page

580

End page

584

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

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LBNC  
Available on Infoscience
February 15, 2008
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/18754
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