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US 2010/0167959 A1Published application
Microelectronic device with heating array
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsMark Thomas Johnson, David Andrew Fish, Marc Wilhelmus Gijsbert Ponjee
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Abstract
The invention relates to different designs of a microelectronic device comprising an array of heating elements (HE) with local driving units (CU2) and optionally with an array of sensor elements (SE) adjacent to a sample chamber (SC). By applying appropriate currents to the heating elements (HE), the sample chamber can be heated according to a desired temperature profile. The local driving units comprise means for compensating variations of their individual characteristics.
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A microelectronic device for manipulating a sample, comprising:
- a) a sample chamber;
- b) a heating array with a plurality of local driving units and associated heating elements (HE), wherein the heating elements can exchange heat with at least a sub-region of the sample chamber when being driven with electrical energy by the associated local driving unit;
- c) a control unit for selectively controlling the local driving units,
- d) means for compensating variations of the individual characteristics of the local driving units.
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