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The microfluidics industry is growing rapidly. It faces many challenges and questions about how it will become a successful and profitable means of advancing development in science. A key success factor for this industry will be to develop efficient research methods; ultimately, developing a reliable way to achieve efficiency and superior test results through a standard metrology infrastructure. Today test fixtures are handcrafted one at a time in the experimentation and testing phase and permit no subsequent modifications.

One of the key drivers of growth for the field of microfluidics is the decrease in sample and reagent volumes used for a reaction that simultaneously reduces the cost per experiment and the time per reaction. By significantly reducing the time and cost per test, microfluidic-based devices are a key element of pharmaceutical drug discovery and bioscience research today. However, to continue to grow, microfluidics will require precision metrology.

 

The advancement of the microfluidics industry can be said to mirror that of the semiconductor industry in the early 1990s, where trends of smaller and faster devices drove rapid innovation throughout the electronics industry.

 

The Microport interface and L-Series research platform for microfluidics applies the techniques borrowed from semiconductor probing to microfluidics research enabling the same kind repeatability and reliability that lends itself to the widespread market adoption of this discipline. With this level of precision, microfluidics becomes an imperative means to results for biological research, drug development and discovery and improving diagnostics instrumentation.

 

As a means of getting faster time to results, microfluidics enables more efficient mass spectrometry experimentation. Electrospray is one example of an instrumental technique that is easily scaled to a microfluidic chip. Using the Microport interface, researchers can apply the required pressure and electrical fields to drive the channel flow required in electrospray technology.