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Fig. 2.14 Micro-fabricated test section components, top and bottom views. Reprinted from Kohl et al. (2005) with permission...

In the thermochromic liquid crystal (TLC) the dominant reflected wavelength is temperature-dependent and it has been employed for full-field mapping of temperature fields for over three decades. Although it is non-intrusive and cost effective, there are some problems in applying it to micro-scale measurements, because of size (typically tens of micrometers) and time response (from a few milliseconds to several hundred milliseconds depending on the material and the form). Examples of application are micro-fabricated systems (Chaudhari et al. 1998 Liu et al. 2002) and electronic components (Azar et al. 1991). 

Daumengrofes Labor aus Aluminium-Folie, Blick durch die Wirtschafi, June 1997 Heterogeneous gas-phase micro reactor micro-fabrication of this device anodic oxidation of aluminum to porous catalyst support vision of complete small laboratory numbering-up development of new silicon device [225]. 

Sichere Chemie in Mikroreaktoren, Frankjurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 1995 Plant cells as model for micro-reactor development micro-fabrication techniques DuPont s investigations DECHEMA s initiation of micro-reactor platform BASF s investigations general advantages of micro flow [238]. 

Besser, R. S., Ouyang, X., Suranga-LiKAR, H., Hydrocarbon hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions in micro-fabricated catalytic reactors, Chem. Eng. Sci. 58 (2003) 19-26. 

WiESSMEiER, G., Honigke, D., Micro-fabricated components for heterogeneously... 

Han, j., Craighead, H. G., Separation of long DNA molecules in a micro-fabricated trap array. Science 288 (2000) 1026-1029. 

Micro-flow processing is not an exclusive domain of micro-channel devices made by micro fabrication. This approach can be applied to any packing of regular-shaped objects which results in interstices of the same internal dimensions and the same precision as given for micro channels. Obviously, interstices made from extended, but thin objects resemble best the nature of micro channels. Hence the use of filaments for constituting a micro-flow assembly was recently described [8]. 

WiessmeierJG.EIonickeP., Micro-fabricated componentsforheterogeneously catalyzed reactions, J.Micromech. Microeng. 6(1996)285-289. 

Kuebler SM, Rumi M (2004) Nonlinear optics - applications three-dimensional micro fabrication. In Guenther RD, Steel DG, Bayvel L (eds) Encyclopedia of modem optics. Oxford,... 

In the mid-IR, routine infrared spectroscopy nowadays almost exclusively uses Fourier-transform (FT) spectrometers. This principle is a standard method in modem analytical chemistry45. Although some efforts have been made to design ultra-compact FT-IR spectrometers for use under real-world conditions, standard systems are still too bulky for many applications. A new approach is the use of micro-fabrication techniques. As an example for this technology, a miniature single-pass Fourier transform spectrometer integrated on a 10 x 5 cm optical bench has been demonstrated to be feasible. Based upon a classical Michelson interferometer design, all... 

Reidy, S. Lambertus, G. Reece, J. Sacks, R., High performance, static coated silicon micro fabricated columns for gas chromatography, Anal. Chem. 2006, 78, 2623 2630... 

Zhu L, Stryjweski WJ, Soper SA (2004) Multiplexed fluorescence detection with micro-fabricated devices with both time-resolved and spectral-discrimination capabilities using near-infrared fluorescence. Anal Biochem 330 206-218... 

Hirata M, Gotou T, Ohba M. Thin-fiim particles of graphite oxide 1 Preliminary studies for internal micro fabrication of single particle and carbonaceous electronic circuits, Carbon 2005, 43,503-510. 

Sasaki, S. and Karube, I. (1999) The development of micro fabricated biocatalytic fuel cells. Trends Biotecbnol., 17, 50-2. 

Nakanishi, H., Nishimoto, T., Kanai, M., Abe, H., Kuyama, H., Yoshida, T., and Arai, A. (1999). Micro-fabrication of quartz microchips for capillary electrophoresis and their analytical performances. Shimadzu Hyoron 56, 3—9. 

Figure 1. Smart dust mote and its components Micro-fabricated sensors, optical receiver, signal-processing and control circuitry the power source consists of a solar cell and a thick-film battery. (Derived with permission from ref 16. Copyright 2001 IEEE)...

Building up expertise in this field, EMBL with its data library is well positioned to play an important European role in estabfishing a reference DNA array and SAGE database. In the future, the micro-array technology will be developed also for proteins, applying miniaturization, nanotechnology, micro-fabricated devices and reaction chambers. 

FIGURE 18.2 Scanning electron micrographs of silicon microneedles, (a) Silicon microneedles micro-fabricated using a modified form of the BOSCH deep reactive ion etching process. The microfabrication process was accomplished at CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK). The wafer was prepared at the Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, UK. Bar = 100 pm (b-d) platinum-coated silicon microneedles prepared using a wet-etch microfabrication process performed at the Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland. Bar = 1 mm (b), 100 pm (c,d). 

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