All-plastic, low-power, disposable, continuous-flow PCR chip with integrated microheaters for rapid DNA amplification

- Design and fabrication of a low-cost, all-polymer (PI), continuous-flow, μPCR chip.
- Cu thin film microheaters integrated on commercially available thin PI substrate.
- Excellent temperature uniformity, small thermal mass, hence low power consumption.
- Demonstrated successful DNA (90 bp) amplification within 5 min.