A Handheld and Battery-Powered Realtime Microfluidic Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Amplification Device

This paper reports a handheld and battery-powered polymerase chain reaction (PCR) system using a polyimide film-based microfabricated heating modules and polymer film microfluidic chambers, with a very low power consumption, compared to state of the art. The device will be, to the best of our knowledge, the smallest and very fast real-time microfluidic amplification and quantification of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).