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Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array Digital Microfluidic Biochips

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The digital microfluidic biochip has become a promising platform for various biomedical and biochemistry applications because of its specific advantages. However, conventional digital microfluidic biochips are still with several drawbacks. In order to overcome those drawbacks, a new digital microfluidic-based architecture, referred as micro-electrode-dot-array (MEDA), has been proposed and experimentally validated. This chapter introduces basic working principles and applications of digital microfluidics, details of MEDA technology, and motivation for developing design automation and test techniques for MEDA biochips.

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  1. Intel (United States), Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Zipeng Li

  2. Department of ECE, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty

  3. National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Tsung-Yi Ho

  4. National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Chen-Yi Lee

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Li, Z., Chakrabarty, K., Ho, TY., Lee, CY. (2019). Introduction. In: Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array Digital Microfluidic Biochips. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02964-7_1

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