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Title: Laser heating of aqueous samples on a micro-optical-electro-mechanical system

Abstract

A system of heating a sample on a microchip includes the steps of providing a microchannel flow channel in the microchip; positioning the sample within the microchannel flow channel, providing a laser that directs a laser beam onto the sample for heating the sample; providing the microchannel flow channel with a wall section that receives the laser beam and enables the laser beam to pass through wall section of the microchannel flow channel without being appreciably heated by the laser beam; and providing a carrier fluid in the microchannel flow channel that moves the sample in the microchannel flow channel wherein the carrier fluid is not appreciably heated by the laser beam.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1083216
Patent Number(s):
8367976
Application Number:
12/331,487
Assignee:
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA); The Board of Regents, The University of California (Oakland, CA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
H - ELECTRICITY H05 - ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR H05B - ELECTRIC HEATING
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING

Citation Formats

Beer, Neil Reginald, and Kennedy, Ian. Laser heating of aqueous samples on a micro-optical-electro-mechanical system. United States: N. p., 2013. Web.
Beer, Neil Reginald, & Kennedy, Ian. Laser heating of aqueous samples on a micro-optical-electro-mechanical system. United States.
Beer, Neil Reginald, and Kennedy, Ian. Tue . "Laser heating of aqueous samples on a micro-optical-electro-mechanical system". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1083216.
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