Holger Schmidt

Optofluidics describes the combination of optics and microfluidics and holds great promise for novel devices for biomedical instrumentation, analytical chemistry and other fields that deal with liquid analytes. A highly desirable extension of optofluidics is to use integrated optics to replace the bulky microscopy analysis that is still commonly in use. This would allow development of a fully planar, fully integrated lab on a chip. We are using optofluidic approaches for early infectious disease and cancer detection and genome analysis.