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Experimental Heat Transfer
A Journal of Thermal Energy Generation, Transport, Storage, and Conversion
Volume 25, 2012 - Issue 3
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Localized Microwave Heating in Microwells for Use as Microreactors in Mobile Lab-on-a-Chip Developments

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Pages 197-205 | Received 07 Apr 2011, Accepted 14 Dec 2011, Published online: 27 Jun 2012
 

Abstract

This article reports the application of an open-ended semi-rigid coaxial cable as a miniaturized microwave heating source in microwells made of poly(methyl methacrylate) and polydimethylsiloxane for the realization of a microreactor for mobile lab-on-a-chip devices. By using standard power radio frequency components originally developed for mobile wireless communication applications, microwave fields with an incident power up to 2.5 Watts and with frequencies in the range between 1 and 7 GHz were applied to microliter sample volumes. Microwave fields coupled into the fluid by the open end of the miniature coaxial cable led to localized dielectric and also, to a minor degree, resistive heating of the fluid that induces continuous flow conditions with high mass transport and an associated temperature field with high temperature gradients in the microreactor. Fluid dynamic simulations support and illustrate the experimental findings.

Notes

This paper was originally presented at the Second European Conference on Microfluidics held in Toulouse, France, December 2010.

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