Microfluidics assisted platforms for biotechnological applications

The aim of this PhD work is to exploit microfluidics features to improve the performances of some lab-on-a-chip designed for biotechnological applications: microfabrication techniques developed in the frame of telecommunication systems have by far found many other fields of applications, in particular optical sensing of chemical substances. The experience developed in design, fabricate, and test optical components or MEMS systems, can be successfully applied to the realization of lab-on-a-chip for specific scopes: two kind of microfluidics circuits for biotechnology have been considered, one integrated with the microarray technology, and the other devoted to cell manipulation.