Integrated fluidic circuits (IFC) are a type of integrated circuit utilizing
fluidics
Fluidics, or fluidic logic, is the use of a fluid to perform analog signal, analog or Digital data, digital operations similar to those performed with electronics.
The physical basis of fluidics is pneumatics and hydraulics, based on the theore ...
and the traditional microelectronics found in an
integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...
. One company that produces these circuits for use in biology is Standard Biotools.
See also
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Microfluidics
Microfluidics refers to a system that manipulates a small amount of fluids (10−9 to 10−18 liters) using small channels with sizes of ten to hundreds of micrometres. It is a multidisciplinary field that involves molecular analysis, molecular bi ...
References
Biotechnology
Fluid mechanics
Integrated circuits
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