Field Effect Transistor-Like Control of Capillaric Flow Using Off-Valves

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IEEE
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2022
Authors
Meffan RC
Mak D
Menges J
Dolamore F
Fee C
Dobson RCJ
Nock, Volker
Abstract

An important application area of microfluidics is point-of-care devices. Capillaric circuits are a promising technology to realize such devices. Recently, we introduced a capillary action off-valve which adds preprogrammed autonomous “off”-type valving as a unit operation to capillaric circuits. To date, these devices have only been shown to operate in binary mode. However, due to its conceptual symmetry with electronic junction field effect transistors, it was hypothesized that the off-valve was capable of providing analog resistance control. Using an experimental approach, this work demonstrates for the first time that capillary off-valves can operate in analog resistance mode and that flow control results can be fitted using a modified model of the Shockley transistor equation.

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Meffan RC, Mak D, Menges J, Dolamore F, Fee C, Dobson RCJ, Nock V (2022). Field Effect Transistor-Like Control of Capillaric Flow Using Off-Valves. 2022 IEEE 35th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference (MEMS). 09/01/2022-13/01/2022. 2022 IEEE 35th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference (MEMS).
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Capillary Off-valves, Capillaric Circuits, Point-of-care Testing, Microfluidics
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Fields of Research::40 - Engineering::4003 - Biomedical engineering::400303 - Biomechanical engineering
Fields of Research::40 - Engineering::4003 - Biomedical engineering::400308 - Medical devices
Fields of Research::40 - Engineering::4012 - Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering::401203 - Biomedical fluid mechanics
Fields of Research::40 - Engineering::4012 - Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering::401210 - Microfluidics and nanofluidics
Fields of Research::32 - Biomedical and clinical sciences::3206 - Medical biotechnology::320602 - Medical biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)
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