A temperature-controlled chip holder with integrated electrodes for nanofluidic scattering spectroscopy on highly integrated nanofluidic systems. (IMAGE)
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A temperature-controlled chip holder with integrated electrodes for nanofluidic scattering spectroscopy on highly integrated nanofluidic systems. Research on fluids, particles, molecules and reaction mechanisms in the nanoscale regime requires a controllable fluidic environment, often in the form of a nano- and microchannel system. These systems are commonly embedded in polymer or silicon-based chips that are fabricated in clean room environments for specific experiments. To access the fluidics on those chips, a chip holder is required that ensures a facile but tight connection to macroscopic tubing and control over experimental parameters, such as temperature or electric fields. In addition, this chip holder needs to be adapted to the observation equipment, which in our case is a custom-built dark-field optical microscope.
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Microsystems & Nanoengineering
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