Water-ice chip with liquid-core waveguide functionality. Toward lab on ice.

Sugiya, Kohei; Harada, Makoto; Okada, Tetsuo · Lab Chip · 2009

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A liquid-core waveguide is fabricated with water-ice, which has lower refractive index than most of the solvents, as cladding, and provides a possibility as an ice chip for flow analyses.