Superwicking Silicon

Yvonne Carts-Powell

A laser surface treatment dramatically changes the wetting qualities of silicon, with potential applications in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technologies and electronic cooling.

 

Scatterings imageChunlei Guo in his lab at the University of Rochester.

A laser surface treatment dramatically changes the wetting qualities of silicon, with potential applications in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technologies and electronic cooling.

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