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Secure and Trustworthy Cyberphysical Microfluidic Biochips

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Cyberphysical microfluidic biochips comprise a broad set of technologies for the manipulation of fluids. This chapter provides a general review of microfluidic technologies with an emphasis on digital and flow-based microfluidic biochips, as they have shown great promise for commercialization and integration with security technologies. We discuss basic principles, fabrication, and advances in design automation.

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    Jack Tang & Ramesh Karri

  2. Intel (United States), Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Mohamed Ibrahim

  3. Department of ECE, Duke University, Durham, USA

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty

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Tang, J., Ibrahim, M., Chakrabarty, K., Karri, R. (2020). Cyberphysical Microfluidic Biochips. In: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberphysical Microfluidic Biochips. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18163-5_1

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