PCR on chip
Accelerated PCR-based tests on Silicon in minutes
Our expertise
Imec develops integrated sample-to-result chips to perform PCR-based tests. With silicon-based microfluidics, these enable fast, simple and sensitive detection of genetic markers (e.g. in blood).
Key benefits
- Full PCR analysis from whole-blood in less than 10 minutes,
- Extreme miniaturization and parallelism,
- Full workflow via on-chip integration of filters, mixers, lysis, extraction, enrichment, droplet handling and
- Sample-to-result in one chip
Other technology platforms
Biosensors
Detecting more than 100,000 biomarkers in less than 5 minutes
High-throughput cytometry and cell sorting (FACS)
Sort up to 30 million cells per minute on one cm2
Microfluidics
A whole lab in one cm2
Micro-electrode arrays
For high throughput, multi-modal cell interfacing
Neural probes
The new golden standard in neuroscience
Smart implantable devices
Minimally invasive implants for extremely accurate stimulation of nerves
Biophotonics
For compact and cost-efficient life sciences tools
Lens-free imaging
Continuously monitoring of life processes without disturbing them
Raman Spectroscopy
Build a Raman spectrometer that's 1000 times smaller than a bench-top tool.
Nanopore technology
The driver behind sequencing 4.0
