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Digital Microfluidic Droplet Adapter for Interconnection of Biochips

R. Zhu[1], X. Xiong[2], P. Patra[1], C. Jin[1], J. Hu[3]
[1]Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA
[2]Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA
[3]Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA
Publié en 2014

In this research, we use the COMSOL Multiphysics® software to design and simulate a digital microfluidic droplet adapter for board-level biochip integration. Digital Microfluidic Biochip (DMFB) has gained tremendous research interest in recent years due to its importance in Lab-on-a-Chip and other bio-MEMS (bio-Microelectromechanical Systems) devices. However, different DMFB microarray from different manufacturers may have different electrode sizes. This electrode size incompatibility becomes a problem for the integration of multiple biochips in VLSB. In order to solve this problem, for integration of multiple DMFB boards, a universal droplet adapter to convert droplets into different sizes is needed. Therefore, we use COMSOL to design and simulate a DMFB adapter, and exhibit the result to attest that COMSOL is very useful for DMFB design.

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