What is it about?
"Labs-on-chips" aim at shrinking large, costly laboratory analyses to a chip-scale, which means that they become small and portable. This allows e.g. for point-of-care diagnosis: instead of the doctor having to send a patient's blood sample to a lab for analysis, it can be analyzed on the spot and the patient immediately gets the result.
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Why is it important?
We try to add different optical detection techniques to these labs-on-chips, to enable a wide variety of analyses of chemical or biological samples. In addition, we aim at making the devices in plastics, to produce them at really low cost and make them disposable. Our ultimate aim is to transform these labs-on-chips from lab curiosities into mass deployable devices.
Perspectives
This article gives an overview of the different lab-on-a-chip devices with integrated optical detection we have developed in recent years.
Prof Jurgen Van Erps
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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This page is a summary of: Photonics-enhanced polymer labs-on-chips, SPIE Newsroom, August 2015, SPIE,
DOI: 10.1117/2.1201508.006043.
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