Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
4:15PM, Wednesday, March 31, 1999
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
Complexity in Integrated Fluidic Circuits
Luc Bousse
Caliper Technologies
About the talk:
Integrated microfluidic systems are often referred to as a "Lab
on a Chip." This represents an implicit comparison with electronic
integrated circuits, and raises the question of how much complexity can
be achieved in microfluidic systems. The number of fluid wells needed in
a microfluidic device is an important consideration, since these wells
take up more space than the channels. If this number becomes too high,
many advantages of microfluidics can become lost, since the chips then
become large, and require large amounts of reagents to fill all the
wells. Therefore, designs that minimize the number of wells are needed,
as are fluidic interfaces that require only nanoliters of solution rather
than microliters. This talk will describe the electrokinetically driven
microfluidic systems for biological applications being developed at
Caliper, and our approach for achieving high complexity on a chip. One
example is a system for performing multiple parallel DNA separations
using a single input for a series of compounds.
About the speaker:
To be provided.
Contact information:
Luc Bousse
Caliper Technologies
Mountain View, CA
luc@calipertech.com