Design and Comparison of Resonant and Non-Resonant Single-Layer Microwave Heaters for Continuous Flow Microfluidics in Silicon-Glass Technology

Markovic, Tomislav; Ocket, Ilja; Baric, Adrijan; Nauwelaers, Bart

doi:10.3390/en13102635

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Design and Comparison of Resonant and Non-Resonant Single-Layer Microwave Heaters for Continuous Flow Microfluidics in Silicon-Glass Technology

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IOT Group, imec, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium

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Division TELEMIC, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

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Department of Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

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Energies 2020, 13(10), 2635; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102635

Submission received: 27 April 2020 / Revised: 15 May 2020 / Accepted: 19 May 2020 / Published: 21 May 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heat Transfer in Energy Conversion Systems)

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This paper presents a novel concept for the co-design of microwave heaters and microfluidic channels for sub-microliter volumes in continuous flow microfluidics. Based on the novel co-design concept, two types of heaters are presented, co-designed and manufactured in high-resistivity silicon-glass technology, resulting in a building block for consumable and mass-producible micro total analysis systems. Resonant and non-resonant co-planar waveguide transmission line heaters are investigated for heating of sub-micro-liter liquid volumes in a channel section at 25 GHz. The heating rates of 16 and 24 °C/s are obtained with power levels of 32 dBm for the through line and the open-ended line microwave heater, respectively. The heating uniformity of developed devices is evaluated with a Rhodamine B and deionized water mixture on a micrometer scale using the microwave-optical measurement setup. Measurement results showed a good agreement with simulations and demonstrated the potential of microwave heating for microfluidics.

Keywords: microwave heating; microfluidics; silicon; chip integration

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Markovic, T.; Ocket, I.; Baric, A.; Nauwelaers, B. Design and Comparison of Resonant and Non-Resonant Single-Layer Microwave Heaters for Continuous Flow Microfluidics in Silicon-Glass Technology. Energies 2020, 13, 2635. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102635

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Markovic T, Ocket I, Baric A, Nauwelaers B. Design and Comparison of Resonant and Non-Resonant Single-Layer Microwave Heaters for Continuous Flow Microfluidics in Silicon-Glass Technology. Energies. 2020; 13(10):2635. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102635

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Markovic, Tomislav, Ilja Ocket, Adrijan Baric, and Bart Nauwelaers. 2020. "Design and Comparison of Resonant and Non-Resonant Single-Layer Microwave Heaters for Continuous Flow Microfluidics in Silicon-Glass Technology" Energies 13, no. 10: 2635. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102635

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Markovic, T., Ocket, I., Baric, A., & Nauwelaers, B. (2020). Design and Comparison of Resonant and Non-Resonant Single-Layer Microwave Heaters for Continuous Flow Microfluidics in Silicon-Glass Technology. Energies, 13(10), 2635. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102635

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