Holger Schmidt, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Optofluidics describes the combination of optics and microfluidics and holds great promise for novel devices for biomedical instrumentation, analytical chemistry and other fields that deal with liquid analytes. A highly desirable extension of optofluidics is to use integrated optics to replace the bulky microscopy analysis that is still commonly in use. This would allow development of a fully planar, fully integrated lab on a chip.