Design and development of a microfluidic droplet generator with vision sensing for lab-on-a-chip devices

• Published in: Sensors and actuators. A. Physical. Vol. 332; p. 113047
• Main Authors: Hettiarachchi, Samith, Melroy, Gehan, Mudugamuwa, Amith, Sampath, Peshan, Premachandra, Charith, Amarasinghe, Ranjith, Dau, Van
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lausanne Elsevier B.V 01.12.2021; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Active droplet generator; Algorithms; Computer simulation; Devices; Digital imaging; Droplets; Experimentation; Flow velocity; Flow-focusing; Fluid dynamics; Generators; Heat transfer; Image processing; Lab-on-a-chip; Mathematical models; Microfluidics; Polymethyl methacrylate; Simulation; Vision sensing; Lab-on-a-chip; Active droplet generator; Vision sensing; Flow-focusing; Microfluidics
• ISSN: 0924-4247; 1873-3069
• DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2021.113047

•Contraction width of the flow-focusing geometry was optimized.•Layer based fabrication method was used to produce the droplet generator.•Active droplet generation was achieved using two submerge pumps.•Vision sensing was used to determine the diameter of generated droplets. [Display omitted] Lab on...