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Multi-step Variable Height Photolithography for Valved Multilayer Microfluidic Devices
Published on: January 27, 2017
Monolithic photolithographically patterned Fluorocur PFPE membrane valves and pumps for in situ planetary exploration
Peter A Willis1, Frank Greer, Michael C Lee
1Instrument Electronics and Sensors Section, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California 91109, USA. willis@jpl.nasa.gov
Lab on a Chip
|June 28, 2008
Abstract:
Photolithographically defined monolithic membrane valves utilizing Fluorocur perfluoropolyether (PFPE) were fabricated and characterized to be essentially unaltered after one million actuations and exposure to the environmental stresses associated with in situ exploration of Mars.

