Engineers Garage

  • Projects and Tutorials
    • Electronic Projects
      • 8051
      • Arduino
      • ARM
      • AVR
      • PIC
      • Raspberry pi
      • STM32
    • Tutorials
    • Circuit Design
    • Project Videos
    • Components
  • Articles
    • Tech Articles
    • Insight
    • Invention Stories
    • How to
    • What Is
  • News
    • Electronic Products News
    • DIY Reviews
    • Guest Post
  • Forums
    • EDABoard.com
    • Electro-Tech-Online
    • EG Forum Archive
  • Digi-Key Store
    • Cables, Wires
    • Connectors, Interconnect
    • Discrete
    • Electromechanical
    • Embedded Computers
    • Enclosures, Hardware, Office
    • Integrated Circuits (ICs)
    • Isolators
    • LED/Optoelectronics
    • Passive
    • Power, Circuit Protection
    • Programmers
    • RF, Wireless
    • Semiconductors
    • Sensors, Transducers
    • Test Products
    • Tools
  • EE Resources
    • DesignFast
    • LEAP Awards
    • Oscilloscope Product Finder
    • White Papers
    • Webinars
  • EE Learning Center
    • Design Guides
      • WiFi & the IOT Design Guide
      • Microcontrollers Design Guide
      • State of the Art Inductors Design Guide
  • Women in Engineering

Novel Optofluidic Platform Introduced Tunable Optics and New ‘Lightvalves.’

By Parul Gupta

New technology links high-performance microfluidics for processing of sample with dynamic optical switching and tuning, all on a cost-effective ‘chip’ prepared for a flexible silicone substance. For well over years, electronic engineer Holger Schmidt has been introducing gadgets for optical inquiry of samples on chip-based platforms integrated with applications in genres like virus detection, chemical analysis, and biological sensors.
 
 
The present gadget from his laboratory is based on new technology that links high-performing micro-fluids for processing of samples with vigorous optical switching and transforming. In conventional gadgets from Schmidt’s laboratory, optical functions were structured into silicone chips utilizing the related to fabrication technology utilized to create computer chips. The novel device is absolutely made of polydimethylsiloxane or PDMS, which is a flexible, soft substance utilized in micro-fluidics as well as in items like medical gadgets and contact lenses.
 
“We can utilize this fabrication technique now to construct a power-pack device that enables us to conduct biological sample processing and detection of optical on a single chip,” says Schmidt, a Kapany lecturer of Optoelectronics and the director of W.M. Keck Centre for Nanoscale Optofluidics at UC Santa Cruz.
 
The elasticity of PDMS enables for new techniques of controlling both fluids and light on the chip. Utilizing multilayer soft lithography methods, senior graduate scholar Joshua Parks developed chips comprising both hollow-core and solid-core waveguides for simulating light signals, and also fluidic micro-valves to regulate the motion of liquid samples Parks and Schmidt also introduced a unique microvalve that operates as a ‘light-valve’ regulating the flow of both fluids and light.
 
“That opens up an entire novel set of functions that we could not perform on a silicon chip,” says Schmidt. “The light-valve is the most interesting element. In additional to a simple off-on switch, we developed a movable optical trap for examining of biological parties like bacteria or viruses.”
 
In a conventional study, Parks, Schmidt, and his team members at BYU and UC Berkeley illustrated a device that features a PDMS micro-fluidic chip for preparing sample was incorporated with an opto-fluidic chip based on silicon for optical identification of viral pathogens. The novel gadget links both functionalities on the same chip. In addition to this, Schmidt says that the substances are comparatively inexpensive, enabling rapid prototyping of gadgets.
 
“We can carry the complete chain of fabrication in our laboratory and we can create novel gadgets very swiftly,” he said. Schmidt says that the potential applications for such technology comprise an extensive array of biological sensors and analytical gadgets. For diagnostic of viral assays, fluorescently labelled antibodies can be utilized to tag unique viral strains for optical identification.
 
The dynamic functioning of the opto-fluidic gadget is accomplished by putting pressure on the opto-fluidic channel, altering its measurements and hence transforming its photonic characteristics. “We can eventually tune the spot technique prepared in the channel by the interference of waveguide that we could not actually perform with the chips based on silicon,” says Schmidt. 

Filed Under: News

 

Questions related to this article?
👉Ask and discuss on EDAboard.com and Electro-Tech-Online.com forums.



Tell Us What You Think!! Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

HAVE A QUESTION?

Have a technical question about an article or other engineering questions? Check out our engineering forums EDABoard.com and Electro-Tech-Online.com where you can get those questions asked and answered by your peers!


Featured Tutorials

  • PS2 Keyboard To Store Text In SD Card Using Arduino Circuit Setup On Breadboard
    How To Use PS2 Keyboard To Store Text In SD Card Using Arduino- (Part 42/49)
  • Wireless Path Tracking System Using Mouse, XBee And Arduino Circuit Setup On Breadboard
    How To Make A Wireless Path Tracking System Using Mouse, XBee And Arduino- (Part 43/49)
  • How to Make a Wireless Keyboard Using Xbee with Arduino- (Part 44/49)
  • Making Phone Call From GSM Module Using Arduino Circuit Setup On Breadboard
    How to Make Phonecall From GSM Module Using Arduino- (Part 45/49)
  • How to Make a Call using Keyboard, GSM Module and Arduino
    How To Make A Call Using Keyboard, GSM Module And Arduino- (Part 46/49)
  • Receiving SMS Using GSM Module With Arduino Prototype
    How to Receive SMS Using GSM Module with Arduino- (Part 47/49)

Stay Up To Date

Newsletter Signup

Sign up and receive our weekly newsletter for latest Tech articles, Electronics Projects, Tutorial series and other insightful tech content.

EE Training Center Classrooms

EE Classrooms

Recent Articles

  • Renesas delivers intelligent sensor solutions for IoT applications
  • Microchip Technology releases AVR-IoT Cellular Mini Development Board
  • Qualcomm acquires Cellwize to accelerate 5G adoption and spur infrastructure innovation
  • MediaTek’s chipset offers high-performance option for 5G smartphones
  • Nexperia’s new level translators support legacy and future mobile SIM cards

Most Popular

5G 555 timer circuit 8051 ai Arduino atmega16 automotive avr bluetooth dc motor display Electronic Part Electronic Parts Fujitsu ic infineontechnologies integratedcircuit Intel IoT ir lcd led maximintegratedproducts microchip microchiptechnology Microchip Technology microcontroller microcontrollers mosfet motor powermanagement Raspberry Pi remote renesaselectronics renesaselectronicscorporation Research samsung semiconductor sensor software STMicroelectronics switch Technology vishayintertechnology wireless

RSS EDABOARD.com Discussions

  • FPGA LVDS with separate clock
  • How do you find the angle made by two isosceles triangles in a kite?
  • Limits of duty cycle for ICM7555 IC?
  • Increasing the Termination Resistor value for Ethernet
  • Thermal pad construction on pcb

RSS Electro-Tech-Online.com Discussions

  • we are facing an issue with one-wire communication by using DS2485
  • RF modules which can handle high number of bytes per second
  • Are Cross-wind compensation and Road crown compensation functions inputs to LKA function?
  • Component identification.
  • Flickering (candle) LED to trigger 555
Engineers Garage
  • Analog IC TIps
  • Connector Tips
  • DesignFast
  • EDABoard Forums
  • EE World Online
  • Electro-Tech-Online Forums
  • Microcontroller Tips
  • Power Electronic Tips
  • Sensor Tips
  • Test and Measurement Tips
  • 5G Technology World
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise

Copyright © 2022 WTWH Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media
Privacy Policy | Advertising | About Us

Search Engineers Garage

  • Projects and Tutorials
    • Electronic Projects
      • 8051
      • Arduino
      • ARM
      • AVR
      • PIC
      • Raspberry pi
      • STM32
    • Tutorials
    • Circuit Design
    • Project Videos
    • Components
  • Articles
    • Tech Articles
    • Insight
    • Invention Stories
    • How to
    • What Is
  • News
    • Electronic Products News
    • DIY Reviews
    • Guest Post
  • Forums
    • EDABoard.com
    • Electro-Tech-Online
    • EG Forum Archive
  • Digi-Key Store
    • Cables, Wires
    • Connectors, Interconnect
    • Discrete
    • Electromechanical
    • Embedded Computers
    • Enclosures, Hardware, Office
    • Integrated Circuits (ICs)
    • Isolators
    • LED/Optoelectronics
    • Passive
    • Power, Circuit Protection
    • Programmers
    • RF, Wireless
    • Semiconductors
    • Sensors, Transducers
    • Test Products
    • Tools
  • EE Resources
    • DesignFast
    • LEAP Awards
    • Oscilloscope Product Finder
    • White Papers
    • Webinars
  • EE Learning Center
    • Design Guides
      • WiFi & the IOT Design Guide
      • Microcontrollers Design Guide
      • State of the Art Inductors Design Guide
  • Women in Engineering