Thesis (Ph.D)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. / Committee Chair: Glezer, Ari; Committee Member: Alben, Silas; Committee Member: Joshi, Yogendra; Committee Member: Smith, Marc; Committee Member: Webster, Donald. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Over the past years, microfluidic systems have been rapidly developed from early single channel devices to current complex integrated analysis systems. The development in microfluidics has led to the realization of miniaturized applications in biomedical or chemical analysis. High throughput and automated microfluidic systems have made it possible to achieve biomedical or chemical instruments with new levels of performance and capability. However, because of the requirement of biomedical systems, disposed and optically transparent materials, high aspect ratio structures, and complicated fluidic connection are desirable. Conventional silicon microfabrication process may not overcome these limitations. In this work, micro molding replication technique is proposed as a low-cost polymer microfabrication technique. Based on this technique, four polymer based microfluidic devices, which are vortex micropump, discretized micromixer, carbon nanotube based flow sensor, and Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) imaging biosensor have been designed, fabricated and demonstrated. According to different applications, these individual devices can be integrated into an automated microfluidic analysis system to sense, regenerate, and deliver fluid volumes in the order of micro-liters. This miniaturized and integrated system can provide a high throughput, increased resolution, and better controllable environment. Using the integrated and automated microfluidic system, two biomedical experiments, including monitoring of bovine serum albumin (BSA) binding reaction with BSA antibodies, and cell adhesion properties under the influence of trypsin, have been conducted. / Lei Kin Fong Thomas. / "August 2005." / Adviser: Wen J. Li. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: B, page: 4065. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-98). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-79).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. Directed by Said I. Abdel-Khalik. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-296).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--School of Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. Directed by Sue Ann Bidstrup. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-168).

Fluidic lenses have been developed for ophthalmic applications. The lenses use a pressure differential to deform a membrane, which separates two fluids with different indexes of refraction. The change in membrane shape creates changes in the optical wavefront. By utilizing different boundary conditions on the membrane, the progression of the membrane shape can be controlled. Specifically, a circular restraint is used to produce optical power, whereas a rectangular restraint is used to produce a combination of power and astigmatism. These lenses are analyzed for dominant properties and wavefront quality. By combining 2 rectangular restraint lenses at 45° and a circular restraint lens, both orthogonal second order Zernike astigmatisms as well as second order power can be independently controlled. This combination can also be described as independent control of ophthalmic cylinder, cylinder axis, and power, which is required to create a basic phoropter. A fluidic phoropter is demonstrated and analyzed in this manuscript.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2009. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. / Committee Chair: Hesketh, Peter J.; Committee Member: Allen, Mark G.; Committee Member: Degertekin, F. Levent; Committee Member: Frazier, Bruno A.; Committee Member: Graham, Samuel.

Thesis (MEng) - Swinburne University of Technology, Industrial Research Institute Swinburne - 2007. / A thesis submitted for fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Engineering, Industrial Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology - 2007. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-155).