Creating, transporting, cutting, and merging liquid droplets by electrowetting-based actuation for digital microfluidic circuits

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-80

  Cho, Sung Kwon ^a   Moon, Hyejin ^a   Kim, Chang Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact angle; Electrowetting; Electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD); Lab on a chip; Micro total analysis system ( TAS); Microfluidics; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DROP FORMATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIQUIDS; MICROACTUATORS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACES; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; WETTING;

CUTTING LIQUIDS; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC CIRCUITS; ELECTROWETTING; ELECTROWETTING ON DIELECTRIC; LAB ON CHIP; MERGING LIQUIDS; MICRO TOATAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MICROFLUIDICS;

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0037301514     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2002.807467     Document Type: Article

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