Dr.-Ing. (PhD) Andreas Voigt
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Research Associate
NameMr Dr.-Ing. Andreas Voigt
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| 2004 | Diploma in Physics (TU Dresden), external Diploma thesis at the Max Planck Insitute for Quantum Optics, Garching |
| 2004 - 2005 | Internship at ZMD, Dresden |
| 2010 | PhD thesis (Electrical Engineering) at the chair for measurement and testing techniques, TU Dresden |
| since 2011 | Student of Applied Computer Science at Fernuniversität Hagen |
| since 2012 | Scientific Associate at the Chair of Microsystems |
| 2013-2017 |
Coordinator in the Chemical Information Processing (CIP) Path (cfaed) |
I am interested in the theory and simulation of polymeric microfluidic chips.
My research interests comprise two areas:
A. Components of microfluidic systems: These are transistor-like polymer valves that react to their chemical surroundings. We utilize three different types of valves:
- Dissoluble polymer valves that open once they come into contact with water.
- Polyelectrolytic polymer valves that close once they come into contact with water.
- Smart hydrogel valves (chemofluidic transistors) whose switch state depends on the concentration of a chemical (e.g. alcohol) in the liquid. They can be closed and reopened over many cycles.
Microchemomechanical valve
B. Microfluidics at the system level:
- Basic circuits (modules), that can achieve, e.g., sampling, mixing or oscillations. These modules are the constituents from which larger systems (integrated microfluidic chips) for complex tasks can be built.
- Integrated microfluidic chips. Since the components used to build the chips are transistor-like elements, it is promising to evaluate, which concepts and methods from microelectronics and computer science can be adapted.
schematic of the microfluidic circuit of a chemofluidic oscillator