Glow discharge in microfluidic chips for visible analog computing.

نویسندگان

  • Darwin R Reyes
  • Moustafa M Ghanem
  • George M Whitesides
  • Andreas Manz
چکیده

Here we present a novel visible analog computing approach for solving a wide class of shortest path problems. Using a microfluidic chip for computation, based on the lighting up of a glow discharge, the solution to maze search problems, the solution of a network shortest path and k-shortest paths problems and the practical application of finding the shortest paths between several landmarks from a street map are presented. The solution and visible display (in real time) for these problems shows only a small difference in practical problem solving time among problems with varying differences in size.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Lab on a chip

دوره 2 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002