Zurich, Enschede, Paris, 15th of November 2012
Micronit, Fluigent, and Zurich Instruments join forces
creating the world's first commercial platform for micro electrical
impedance spectroscopy
Micronit, Fluigent and Zurich Instruments announce today the world's
first system solution for micro electrical impedance spectroscopy. The
three companies are combining their state-of-the-art products and
services in order to provide a novel combination to academic and
industrial scientists intending to invest in the emerging biotechnology
field of high-speed electrical sample characterization.
The new platform ensures the interoperability, connectivity and
compatibility of advanced microfluidic flow control pumps (Fluigent) and
best-in-class measurement electronics (Zurich Instruments), with the
world's leading chip prototyping service (Micronit). This addresses the
needs of customers wanting to profit from the example given by leading
research laboratories who are already successfully using the platform
components.
Thanks to the proven connectivity the new platform will be operative
from day one after installation into any laboratory. Customers benefit
immediately from world-class flow stability, fastest electrical
detection, best signal-to-noise and fastest system response. At the same
time the solution is cost competitive when it comes to detect large
quantity of events. Micronit, Fluigent and Zurich Instruments will
collaborate for marketing and sales activities and have recently
presented the new platform to the public at the uTAS 2012 conference in
Okinawa, Japan.
Micronit Microfluidics
has been manufacturing glass-based lab-on-a-chip products for more than
ten years. Micronit provides high quality lab-on-a-chip components for
analytical instrumentation and is also a dedicated research and development partner for both science and industry.
Fluigent develops,
manufactures and commercializes innovative microfluidic flow control
and fluid handling solutions for laboratories, research units and
industry around the world. Enabling full control of microfluidic systems
(pressure, flow rate and voltage), Fluigent technologies provides
innovating solutions for all microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip
applications.
Zurich Instruments
makes lock-in amplifiers, phase-locked loops, and impedance
spectroscopes that have revolutionized instrumentation in the
high-frequency (HF) and ultra-high frequency (UHF) ranges by combining
frequency-domain tools and time-domain tools within each product.
