Y-junction

Two channels meeting a third. No valve, no membrane, no air line — a passive join where two streams come together and continue as one.

What it is for. Bringing two liquid streams into a single channel. What happens after they meet depends on what follows the junction; the junction itself does not mix.

Variants

Sizes below are given in px: units of the design grid these parts were drawn on, where one unit is 0.0076 mm. That is not the printer's pixel. The printer has its own, different pixel size, and nothing on this page is expressed in it — see Hardware and process.

merge_8px_0

H.R.3.3 design

merge_8px_0. A computer render of the cell's channels, in orange, inside its footprint of 912 µm × 912 µm (from its LEF), drawn see-through; not a photograph. Beside it, its cross-section through the middle.
Parameters for merge_8px_0
Footprint120 × 120 px
Channel cross-section8 px × 6 layers
Ports2 fluid in, 1 fluid out
Layout grid0.0076 mm per px

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