Developers and users of lab-on-chip technology are frequently faced with the decision - how to start a microfluidics project and this book, which fills a current void in the literature, gives technological as well as economic guidelines and serves as a tool in this process. The book describes the microfabrication methods necessary to generate lab-on-chip devices in the relevant materials (silicon, glass, polymers, metals, ceramics). It provides graduate students, researchers in academia and industry, with an overview on the technologies available and a practical decision base for selecting materials and fabrication methods for their microfluidics needs. It includes how to make devices (and typical pitfalls), interviews with pioneers in their respective fields and each chapter has a Q&A section to aid learning.