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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
May. 13, 2009
Jongmyeon Park, Seoul, KR;
Jongsuk Chung, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Jeonggun Lee, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
Provided are a valve unit, a microfluidic device including the same, and a method of fabricating the valve unit. The method includes: forming a lower substrate including a channel including a first region and a second region which is deeper than the first region and is adjacent to one side of the first region; forming an upper substrate comprising a valve material chamber which extends only partially through the upper substrate; filling the valve material chamber with a valve material and curing the valve material in the valve material chamber; attaching a surface of the upper substrate in which the valve material chamber is formed to a surface of the lower substrate in which the channel is formed, so that the valve material chamber overlaps an overlapped portion of the first region, and does not overlap a non-overlapped portion of the first region; melting the valve material accommodated in the valve material chamber to flow the valve material into the non-overlapped portion of the first region; and curing the valve material flowed into the non-overlapped portion to close the first region.