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This paper proposes a thin-film-based pressure sensor that is free from these limitations, using a liquid metal called galinstan. The proposed pressure sensor is easily integrated into a microfluidic system using soft lithography because galinstan exists in a liquid phase at room temperature. We investigated the characteristics of the proposed pressure sensor by calibrating for a pressure range from 0 to 230 kPa (R2 &gt; 0.98) using deionized water. Furthermore, the viscosity of various fluid samples was measured for a shear-rate range of 30\u20131000 s\u22121. The results of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids were evaluated using a commercial viscometer and normalized difference was found to be less than 5.1% and 7.0%, respectively. The  galinstan-based pressure sensor can be used in various microfluidic systems for long-term monitoring with high linearity, repeatability, and long-term stability.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s150511823","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,5,21]],"date-time":"2015-05-21T10:30:59Z","timestamp":1432204259000},"page":"11823-11835","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":109,"title":["Highly Stable Liquid Metal-Based Pressure Sensor Integrated with a Microfluidic Channel"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Taekeon","family":"Jung","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical System Engineering, GIST, Gwangju 500-712, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sung","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical System Engineering, GIST, Gwangju 500-712, Korea"},{"name":"School of Mechatronics, GIST, Gwangju 500-712, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,5,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3581","DOI":"10.1021\/ac0340758","article-title":"Microfluidic Device for Single-Cell Analysis","volume":"75","author":"Wheeler","year":"2003","journal-title":"Anal. 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