Development of Elastomeric Optofluidic Devices for Lasing and Sensing
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...Optical absorbance measurement is also a very common way to determine protein’s concentration in water solution [109-110]; Integration of optical functions with microfluidic has been becoming an important approach in developing “Lab-on-a-chip” devices [111-113]....
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...52 As a fast-growing field, microfluidics and lab on chip systems have found numerous applications in the areas of biochemical detection, analysis, synthesis and separations [3, 67-69]....
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...They also hold the promise of integrating an entire laboratory onto a single chip which is so called “Lab-on-a-chip” [3, 104-105]....
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...The field of optofluidics formally began to emerge in the mid-2000s when the fields of microfluidics and micro/nano photonics were maturing and the researchers began to look for the synergies between these two areas [2-4]....
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...For a steady laminar flow in a rectangular channel with constant cross-sectional areas, the pressure gradient is linearly proportional to the flow rate Q [88],...
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...Different from traditionally optics where the light can be only controlled on the length scale down to a little below of optical diffraction limit, a new paradigm called plasmonics is emerging [138]....
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...As being compatible with the normal microfluidic in terms of both fabrication and characterization [20], this device can be easily integrated into a lab-on-a-chip system for in situ measuring the pressure and flow rate....
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...The optofluidic chip was fabricated by multilayer soft lithography (MSL), which has been widely utilized to make the membrane valves and pumps on microfluidic devices [20]....
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...For example, the compressed air has become one of the dominated methods to manipulate the liquid analyte for lab-on-a-chip applications, either by pushing the liquid directly or by actuating the membrane valve [20, 57]....
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...Such pneumatically control has been widely utilized in microfluidic chips for fluid control based on the membrane valves and pumps [20]....
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...Multilayer soft lithography was utilized for chip fabrication [20, 123]....
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