Optofluidics Systems Technology

This book shows a way to integrate biology, fluidics, and optics by means of an opto-fluidics platform capable of quick manipulation and highly sensitive investigation of small quantities of biological or chemical fluids. Merging of technologies is key and program to this book because new devices are only possible with the combination of appropriate technologies. The focus lies on the integration and systems aspect of future micro- and nanosystems on a platform, an enabling, interdisciplinary "meeting point" for biology, photonics, and fluidics. As they are suitable for serving all of these fields, the materials of choice discussed here are polymers. A truly interdisciplinary approach to biochemical and medical sensing involving ingredients from photonics, nanotechnology, and microfluidics Book jacket.