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A Portable BLE-Controllable Micropump Driver for Lab-on-Chip Applications

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Proceedings of SIE 2023 (SIE 2023)

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Research in the deployment of compact systems for microfluidic analysis is gathering attention from the industrial and academic world. In this work, we propose a portable battery-powered driver for active micropumps. The driver is remotely-controllable through a Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) interface deployed by means of a System-on-Chip (SoC). To ensure the stability of the generated flow, a feedback mechanism was realized. Preliminary characterization results prove the effectiveness of the proposed design and its low power consumption.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, 70125, Bari, BA, Italy

    Giuseppe Coviello, Antonello Florio, Giuseppe Brunetti, Francesco Rocco Nardelli, Caterina Ciminelli & Gianfranco Avitabile

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Coviello, G., Florio, A., Brunetti, G., Nardelli, F.R., Ciminelli, C., Avitabile, G. (2024). A Portable BLE-Controllable Micropump Driver for Lab-on-Chip Applications. In: Ciofi, C., Limiti, E. (eds) Proceedings of SIE 2023. SIE 2023. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48711-8_22

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