CONSPECTUS:The microfluidic biochemical/immunoassay systems typically consist of microfluidic chips,fluid driving devices,and detection components.The core of the system is the microfluidic chips based on microfluidic...CONSPECTUS:The microfluidic biochemical/immunoassay systems typically consist of microfluidic chips,fluid driving devices,and detection components.The core of the system is the microfluidic chips based on microfluidic technology,which are typically constructed with nonresponsive materials such as silicon,glass,and rigid plastics,thus requiring complex external air/liquid pumps to manipulate the samples.The external equipment renders the microfluidic systems cumbersome and increases the risk of biosample contamination.展开更多
Photochromic liquid crystal polymer(LCP)films can undergo spontaneous mechanical deformations upon light illuminations.The light-induced strain is due to photoisomerization and the nematic–isotropic phase transition....Photochromic liquid crystal polymer(LCP)films can undergo spontaneous mechanical deformations upon light illuminations.The light-induced strain is due to photoisomerization and the nematic–isotropic phase transition.A gradient strain exists due to absorption decay of the light intensity and will produce bending of LCP strips.Beam bending models are studied for single layered and bilayered LCP strips with substrate.The results show that the multilayered structures can have much larger bending curvature due to the utilization of the average light-induced contractions which were mostly not active for single-layered LCPs.Some structural optimizations for bilayered laminate are also discussed.展开更多
Lumped element lowpass filter(LPF)for ultra-high frequency(UHF)radio frequency(RF)front-end system is presented based on multilayer liquid crystal polymer(LCP).The lumped element LPF can achieve miniaturization and on...Lumped element lowpass filter(LPF)for ultra-high frequency(UHF)radio frequency(RF)front-end system is presented based on multilayer liquid crystal polymer(LCP).The lumped element LPF can achieve miniaturization and one transmission zero on the stopband by the 8-shaped inductor.The lumped element LPF is fabricated on a 4-layer LCP substrate with a compact size of 9 mm×14 mm×0.193 mm.The measured cut off frequency of the lumped element LPF is 0.5 GHz with insertion loss(IL)less than 0.37 dB.Both measured and simulated results suggest that it is a possible candidate for the application of UHF RF front-end system.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51927805,52233001)the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(2023ZKZD07).
文摘CONSPECTUS:The microfluidic biochemical/immunoassay systems typically consist of microfluidic chips,fluid driving devices,and detection components.The core of the system is the microfluidic chips based on microfluidic technology,which are typically constructed with nonresponsive materials such as silicon,glass,and rigid plastics,thus requiring complex external air/liquid pumps to manipulate the samples.The external equipment renders the microfluidic systems cumbersome and increases the risk of biosample contamination.
基金support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11072062&10772049)the High Technology Develop Program of China(863 Program:2009AA04Z408).
文摘Photochromic liquid crystal polymer(LCP)films can undergo spontaneous mechanical deformations upon light illuminations.The light-induced strain is due to photoisomerization and the nematic–isotropic phase transition.A gradient strain exists due to absorption decay of the light intensity and will produce bending of LCP strips.Beam bending models are studied for single layered and bilayered LCP strips with substrate.The results show that the multilayered structures can have much larger bending curvature due to the utilization of the average light-induced contractions which were mostly not active for single-layered LCPs.Some structural optimizations for bilayered laminate are also discussed.
基金Supported by the Shaanxi Provincial Innovation Team Project(2020TD-019)the Xi'an Sciences Plan Project(21XJZZ0075)。
文摘Lumped element lowpass filter(LPF)for ultra-high frequency(UHF)radio frequency(RF)front-end system is presented based on multilayer liquid crystal polymer(LCP).The lumped element LPF can achieve miniaturization and one transmission zero on the stopband by the 8-shaped inductor.The lumped element LPF is fabricated on a 4-layer LCP substrate with a compact size of 9 mm×14 mm×0.193 mm.The measured cut off frequency of the lumped element LPF is 0.5 GHz with insertion loss(IL)less than 0.37 dB.Both measured and simulated results suggest that it is a possible candidate for the application of UHF RF front-end system.
