Miniaturization of a micro-optics array for highly sensitive and parallel detection on an injection moulded lab-on-a-chip

Lab Chip. 2015 Jun 7;15(11):2445-51. doi: 10.1039/c5lc00176e.

Abstract

A miniaturised array of supercritical angle fluorescence (SAF) micro-optics embedded in a microfluidic chamber was fabricated by injection moulding. The fabricated chip could enhance the fluorescence signal around 46 times compared to a conventional microscope. Collection of the fluorescence signal from the SAF array is almost independent of the numerical aperture, and the limit of detection was improved 36-fold using a simple and inexpensive optical detection system.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • DNA
  • DNA Probes
  • Equipment Design
  • Limit of Detection
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / instrumentation*
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / methods
  • Miniaturization / instrumentation*
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / instrumentation*
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods
  • Spectrometry, Fluorescence / instrumentation*
  • Spectrometry, Fluorescence / methods

Substances

  • DNA Probes
  • DNA