Packaging for Microfluidic Devices and Systems

With the development of micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS), it is called micromachine in Japan, microfluidic application has become one of the hot fields since 1990s. The reason for the continuous interest in this field is its obvious applications. There are the needs from biological, pharmaceutical and medical applications covering both diagnosis and clinical treatments. The needs are also from chemical analysis and chemical synthesis. The applications in space technologies and semiconductor fabrication are also very interesting. Ink jet printing technologies have already obtained extreme success in both civil and industrial applications.