Activation of Control Pins for Routing of Test Droplets within a Bi-partitioned Digital Microfluidic Biochip

摘要

Digital micro fluidics based biochips is expected to play an important role towards point-of-care diagnostics, drug discovery, prevention of bio-terrorism and other biochemical applications. Design and testing of biochips always remained a challenging area of research. Structural testing of these bio-MEMS is ensured by smooth movements of test droplets within the micro fluidic array. Partitioning the digital micro fluidic array into clusters reduces the testing time. This paper proposes a novel scheme of activation of electrode-control pins based on existing allocation methods enabling movement of test droplets within a bi-partitioned digital micro fluidic biochip.