Structural Modelling, Design Automation, and a Generalized Routing Technique for Digital Microfluidic Biochips with Hexagonal Electrodes

Digital microfluidic biochips skilfully manoeuvre a significant assignment in the realm of biochips by supervising droplets of nano-or micro-litre volume. Enhancement of reliable and precise outcomes of digital microfluidic biochips open a new era in environmental as well as biological science. Being concerned about various advancements and considering all design specifications along with the decisive factors like fluidic and pin constraints, we have structured the hexagonal electrode based digital microfluidic biochip system over traditional square electrodes, and also implemented the most significant modular operation, i.e. droplet routing regarding its behavioural natures. Finally, we have devised an improved safe droplet routing algorithm on the hexagonal cell array without any droplet interference and incorporated a comparative study between this new architecture and the existing square one.