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ArticleScientific reports2018

Noncontact and Nonintrusive Microwave-Microfluidic Flow Sensor for Energy and Biomedical Engineering.

Mohammad Hossein Zarifi, Hamid Sadabadi, S Hossein Hejazi, Mojgan Daneshmand, Amir Sanati-Nezhad

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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Mohammad Hossein ZarifiBioMEMS and Bioinspired Microfluidic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 2N1, Canada.
Hamid SadabadiBioMEMS and Bioinspired Microfluidic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 2N1, Canada.
S Hossein HejaziSubsurface Fluidics and EOR Laboratory, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
Mojgan DaneshmandDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9, Canada. daneshmand@ualberta.ca.
Amir Sanati-NezhadBioMEMS and Bioinspired Microfluidic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 2N1, Canada. amir.sanatinezhad@ucalgary.ca.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A novel flow sensor is presented to measure the flow rate within microchannels in a real-time, noncontact and nonintrusive manner. The microfluidic device is made of a fluidic microchannel sealed with a thin polymer layer interfacing the fluidics and microwave electronics. Deformation of the thin circular membrane alters the permittivity and conductivity over the sensitive zone of the microwave resonator device and enables high-resolution detection of flow rate in microfluidic channels using non-contact microwave as a standalone system. The flow sensor has the linear response in the range of 0-150 µl/min for the optimal sensor performance. The highest sensitivity is detected to be 0.5 µl/min for the membrane with the diameter of 3 mm and the thickness of 100 µm. The sensor is reproducible with the error of 0.1% for the flow rate of 10 µl/min. Furthermore, the sensor functioned very stable for 20 hrs performance within the cell culture incubator in 37 °C and 5% CO

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