Patent ID: 8969767
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
1. A micro-optical-electro-mechanical system apparatus for heating a sample, comprising: a microchip; a microchannel flow channel in said microchip, said microchannel flow channel including a wall section made of silicon or glass; a chilled emulsifier carrier fluid source connected to said microchannel flow channel that introduces a chilled emulsifier carrier fluid into said microchannel flow channel, a microreactor maker connected to said microchannel flow channel that produces microreactors containing the sample and introduces said microreactors containing the sample into said microchannel flow channel and into said chilled emulsifier carrier fluid, a microwave source that directs 18 to 26 GHz microwaves onto the sample in said microreactors in said microchannel flow channel for heating the sample in said microreactors; and a heating area in said microchannel flow channel, said heating area including said wall section made of silicon or glass; said microwave source being positioned to direct said 18 to 26 GHz microwaves to said heating area and said wall section of said microchannel flow channel so that said wall section of said microwave flow channel receives said 18 to 26 GHz microwaves and said wall section of said microwave flow channel enables said 18 to 26 GHz microwaves to pass through said wall section of said microchannel flow channel in said heating area to the sample in said microreactors, wherein said wall section of said microchannel flow channel is made of silicon or glass that does not absorb said 18 to 26 GHz microwaves and is not heated; wherein said chilled emulsifier carrier fluid within said microchannel flow channel moves said microreactors containing the sample in said microchannel flow channel, wherein said chilled emulsifier carrier fluid does not absorb said 18 to 26 GHz microwaves and is not heated by said microwaves; wherein said 18 to 26 GHz microwaves pass through said wall section of said microchannel flow channel and heat the sample in said microreactors.