Microfabricated structure having parallel and orthogonal flow channels controlled by row and column multiplexors

High-density microfluidic chips 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 (LSI). A component of these networks is...

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Hauptverfasser:	Maerkl Sebastian J, Studer Vincent, Quake Stephen R, Thorsen Todd A, Bao Xiaoyan
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACTUATING-FLOATS BEER BIOCHEMISTRY BLASTING CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE CHEMISTRY COCKS COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS ENZYMOLOGY FLUID-CIRCUIT ELEMENTS PREDOMINANTLY USED FOR COMPUTING ORCONTROL PURPOSES FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS HEATING HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL LIGHTING MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING METALLURGY MICROBIOLOGY MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS, e.g. MICROMECHANICALDEVICES MICROSTRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGY MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS PROCESSES OR APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTUREOR TREATMENT OF MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS SPIRITS TAPS THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL TRANSPORTING VALVES VINEGAR WEAPONS WINE
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Zusammenfassung:	High-density microfluidic chips 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 (LSI). A 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. These integrated microfluidic networks can be used to construct a variety of highly complex microfluidic devices, for example the microfluidic analog of a comparator array, and a microfluidic memory storage device resembling electronic random access memories.