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Glass 3D printing of microfluidic pressure sensor interrogated by fiber-optic refractometry.

Qi ZhangJincheng LeiYizheng ChenYongji WuHai Xiao
Published in: IEEE photonics technology letters : a publication of the IEEE Laser and Electro-optics Society (2020)
This letter reports a novel fused silica microfluidic device with pressure sensing capability that is fabricated by integrated additive and subtractive manufacturing (IASM) method. The sensor consists of a capillary and a 3D printed glass reservoir, where the reservoir volume change under pressure manifests liquid level deviation inside the capillary, thus realizing the conversion between small pressure change into large liquid level variation. Thanks to the design flexibility of this unique IASM method, the proposed microfluidic device is fabricated with liquid-in-glass thermometer configuration, where the reservoir is sealed following a novel 3D printing assisted glass bonding process. And liquid level is interrogated by a fiber-optic sensor based on multimode interference (MMI) effect. This proposed microfluidic device is attractive for chemical and biomedical sensing because it is flexible in design, and maintains good chemical and mechanical stability, and adjustable sensitivity and range.
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