Evaluation of printed heating elements for continuous flow PCR application

Abstract

Printed electronics on flexible substrate is becoming more popular in the flexible and wearable products for biomedical, lab-on-chip and automotive. Flexible printed passive components (resistance, inductance and capacitance) are an attractive solution to the hybrid passives on polymer substrate. Printed resistor can be used as normal resistor, thermistor and heater through the selection of different conductive and resistive materials. The evaluation of printed 3-zone heating elements for continuous flow PCR (polymerase chain reaction) application will be studied in this study.