Polymer based vortex micropump fabricated by micro molding replication technique

Author

Lei, Kin Fong ; Lam, Raymond H W ; Lam, Josh H M ; Li, Wen J.

Author_Institution

Centre for Micro & Nano Syst., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

28 Sept.-2 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

1740

Abstract

A polymer based vortex micropump fabricated by micro molding replication technique is described in this paper. The optically transparent and biocompatible material used to fabricate the micropump will enable the pump to be applied on many biomedical and chemical analyses applications. Fluid transmission of the vortex micropump is driven by the circumrotating motion of an impeller inside the micropump. The pump rate can reach 2.5 ml/min at a low operating voltage of 3 V with a power consumption of 345 m W from the experimental results. The fabrication process and performance characterization of this novel micropump is described in this paper.

Keywords

impellers; microfluidics; micropumps; plastic products; replica techniques; 3 V; 345 mW; biocompatible material; biomedical analyses; chemical analyses; fluid transmission; impeller circumrotating motion; micro molding replication; vortex micropump; Biological materials; Biomedical materials; Biomedical optical imaging; Chemical analysis; Micropumps; Optical materials; Optical polymers; Optical pumping; Optical vortices; Pumps;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8463-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2004.1389647

Filename

1389647