Medical diagnosis is the initial stage in solving a person's condition and disease. One method that is widely used now is the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The use of thermal cycler device material in the PCR reaction affects the time required in the process. With the advancement of microfluidic technology, thermal cycler chips with microfluidic systems have been developed to increase the speed of PCR reactions. This study discusses several materials and geometries used as PCR thermal cycler reactions. COMSOL Multiphysics 5.3 application used to simulate two PCR designs, block-type thermal cycles (TCP design 1), and microfluidic type thermal cycles (TCP design 2). The results obtained are the saturation time for TCP design 1 using aluminum material for 29 seconds for heating and 26 seconds for safety, copper for 37 seconds for heating and 35 seconds for cooling, nickel for 51 seconds for heating and 53 seconds for heating, silver for 26 seconds for heating and cooling, and PDMS for 1480 seconds for heating and cooling. In TCP design 1, when aluminum was used, saturation time is obtained to heat the reagent for 32 seconds and 35 seconds to cool. In TCP PCR design 2 (a) which directly uses PDMS, obtained time to saturate the reagent heating is 3.2 seconds and 4.3 seconds to cool, whereas in TCP design 2 (b) it takes time to heat the reagent for 4.3 seconds and 4.6 seconds to cool down.
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