Team Work Experiences In Process Automation For Precision Chemical Deposition

The area of chemical analysis is growing rapidly, supporting areas related to Bioengineering, such as pharmaceuticals and genetics. High throughput of analyses is becoming more critical. As the size of each sample shrinks, so to does the time available to perform accurate analysis due to evaporation and other contamination factors. New materials and processes are being created in order to provide the ability to analyze large numbers of samples in a reasonable period of time. One such project at Purdue is reducing the size of samples even further, while increasing the spatial density of a group of samples. This requires increased precision in two-dimensional alignment and