Lab-on-a-chip
Lab on a chip is currently one of the most widely used technologies that have solved various kinds of issues in every sector of the industries. The device Lab on chip is such that it integrates various functions of a laboratory on a single chip. The size of the chip is very small which is around some millimetres to some centimetres. Even the fluid holding capacity of the chip is very less which is around some Pico litres (Herold, 2009). It is really surprising that such a small device can hold so much information. Because of this reason the lab on chip device is also known as “Micro Total Analysis Device”. The lab on chip device is actually the sub division of Micro electrochemical system (MEMS) devices.
Advantages of the Lab on a chip:
• The multifunctional chip uses very less amount of fluids for any diagnosis process which means that only by adding a very small amount of reagents or sample fluids on the chip can detect and give the result. For e.g. in DNA microarrays in order to test the DNA the DNA is added in micro litre or even in nano litre (Schulte, 2002). This is very advantageous as it reduces the cost of the reagents that is being used for each experiment.
实验室上的一个芯片
芯片上的实验室是目前最广泛使用的技术，已经解决了各种问题，在每一个扇区的工业之一。片上实验室的装置是这样的，它集成了各种功能在单个芯片上的实验室。该芯片的大小是非常小的，这是周围一些厘米一些毫米。即使是流体控股容量的芯片是非常少，这是周围的一些微微升（哈罗德，2009）。这是令人惊讶的是，这样一个小装置可以容纳这么多的信息。由于这个原因，也被称为“微全分析设备”芯片上的移动设备的实验室。芯片上的实验室设备实际上是分赛区的微型电化学系统（MEMS）器件。
在一个芯片上的实验室的优势：
•的多功能芯片使用的流体的量非常少，这意味着仅通过添加试剂或样本流体芯片上的一个非常小的量，可以检测和给出的结果的任何诊断过程。对于如为了测试的DNA中的DNA微阵列，DNA被添加在微升，甚至在纳米升（舒尔特，2002）。这是非常有利的，因为它降低了成本，正被用于每个实验的试剂。
