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:optotrack: microfluidic chips featured firm! Optotrack (Cary, NC) is a provider of microfluidic chips, sensor arrays, and microsystems. Optotrack's precision fabrication technology addresses a variety of applications including microfluidics, MEMS, solid-state sensing, and biochemical analysis. It permits the low-cost fabrication of very precise structures from a broad range of engineering materials. |
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:sig interviews 2006 venture firms on his "successtoday" program, famous business interviewer sig hutchinson talks with leaders from the 10 tech companies (menu listed at right) selected to present at the ced's 2006 venture event in pinehurst, nc. the firms talk about their unique technologies, business strategies, and some of their plans for the future. |
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:optotrack: microfluidic chips featured firm! Optotrack (Cary, NC) is a provider of microfluidic chips, sensor arrays, and microsystems. Optotrack's precision fabrication technology addresses a variety of applications including microfluidics, MEMS, solid-state sensing, and biochemical analysis. It permits the low-cost fabrication of very precise structures from a broad range of engineering materials. |
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Plastic Wafers with Application Specific Microstructures The proprietary technology of plastic wafers developed at Optotrack, Inc. offers competitive advantages such as design flexibility, rapid prototyping, user's cost saving, and custom surface treatment protocol to better cope with market dynamics and technology platform transforming. The microfluidic chips diced from these plastic wafers are the key component of so-called lab-on-a-chip systems that can manipulate microliter and submicroliter volumes of samples and reagents to perform multiple biological and chemical reactions and analyses for automatic operation, fast validation, and real-time monitoring, which are otherwise usually done with larger volumes in well-equipped laboratories. Optical gratings and waveguides can also be fabricated by the same technology. Plastic wafers with application specific microstructures and coatings will find niche markets in biotech, pharmaceuticals, optoelectronics, and homeland security. |
