The research work reported in this paper focuses on developing an electrochemical micropump and a DNA mixing and analysis system using the electrochemical pumps for actuation. The micropum consists of two swing-door check valves and an electrochemical pumping chamber. In the prototype system, two micropumps were used to deliver the reagents and DNA samples respectively. The SU-8 based UV-lithography process was used to fabricate the system on a glass substrate.

Date Published: 17 January 2003
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 4982, Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems, (17 January 2003); doi: 10.1117/12.478141

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4982:
Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems
Holger Becker; Peter Woias, Editor(s)