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Lab-on-a-chip
Device integrating laboratory functions on an integrated circuit
Lab-on-a-chip
A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single integrated circuit (commonly called a "chip") of only square millimeters to a few square centimeters to achieve automation and high-throughput screening. LOCs can handle extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico-liters. Lab-on-a-chip devices are a subset of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices and sometimes called micro total analysis systems (μTAS). LOCs may use microfluidics (the physics, manipulation and study of minute amounts of fluids). However, strictly regarded "lab-on-a-chip" indicates generally the scaling of single or multiple lab processes down to chip-format, whereas μTAS is dedicated to the integration of the total sequence of lab processes to perform chemical analysis.
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