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AssigneeDavid Sarnoff Research Center, Inc.
InventorsPeter John Zanzucchi, Satyam Choudary Cherukuri, Sterling Edward McBride
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A system for processing a plurality of tests or syntheses in parallel comprising a sample channel for moving samples into a microlaboratory array of a plurality of wells connected by one or more channels for the testing-or synthesis of samples, a station for housing the array and an optical system comprising at least one light source and at least one light detector for measuring the samples in the array, and a means of electrically connecting said array to an apparatus capable of monitoring and controlling the flow of fluids into the array. Samples are loaded from a common loading channel into the array, processed in the wells and measurements taken by the optical system. The array can process many samples, or synthesize many compounds in parallel, reducing the time required for such processes. Etching from both sides of a substrate using patterned photoresist and metal layers to form a network of capillary channels for separately transporting a plurality of different liquids. The channels can cross over each other without intersecting.
A method of forming in a planar substrate a network of capillary channels for separately transporting a plurality of different liquids, wherein channels for a particular liquid cross over channels for another liquid without the channels intersecting, the channels being made up of via segments and planar segments formed on a first surface of the substrate or a second surface of the substrate, wherein the first surface of the substrate is a top or bottom surface of the substrate and the second surface of the substrate is a top or bottom surface of the substrate and is opposite the first surface, wherein the method comprises:
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