Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based microfluidic channel with integrated commercial pressure sensors

C. M.Mackenzie Dover*, Yifan Li, S. Korniliou, K. Sefiane, J. G. Terry, A. J. Walton

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    Abstract

    The precise characterisation of boiling in microchannels is essential for the optimisation of applications requiring two phase cooling. In this paper polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is employed to make microchannels for characterising microboiling. In particular the material properties of PDMS facilitate rapid prototyping and its optical transparency provides the capability to directly view any fluid flow. The production of microchannels is complicated by the need to integrate custom made sensors. This paper presents a PDMS microfluidic device with integrated commercial pressure sensors, which have been used to perform a detailed characterisation of microboiling phenomena. The proposed approach of integrating commercial pressure sensors into the channel also has potential applications in a range of other microsystems.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIEEE SENSORS 2017 - Conference Proceedings
    Editors IEEE
    Place of PublicationPiscataway
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages1-3
    Number of pages3
    ISBN (Electronic)9781509010127
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 21 Dec 2017
    Event16th IEEE SENSORS Conference: ICSENS 2017 - Scottish events Campus (SEC), Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Duration: 30 Oct 20171 Nov 2017
    https://ieee-sensors2017.org/index.html

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of IEEE Sensors
    Volume2017-December
    ISSN (Print)1930-0395
    ISSN (Electronic)2168-9229

    Conference

    Conference16th IEEE SENSORS Conference
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityGlasgow
    Period30/10/171/11/17
    Internet address

    Keywords

    • boiling
    • cooling
    • microfluidics
    • sensors

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