Dielectrophoresis of a deformable fluid particle in a nonuniform electric field

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 4438-4441

  Feng, James Q ^a  

^a XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 0008449518     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.54.4438     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. For a review, see, e.g., H. A. Pohl, Dielectrophoresis (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1978); T. B. Jones, Electromechanics of Particles (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1995), and citations therein.
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10. In this work, the applied electric field is considered to be mainly in the direction of θ=0 as consistent with (1), whereas the gravity and uniform flow velocity U, with respect to the reference frame fixed in the drop, are in the direction of θ=π.
11. T. B. Jones, J. Electrostat.11, 85 (1981).