Microfluidic sorting in an optical lattice

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6965, 2003, Pages 421-424

  MacDonald, M P ^a   Spalding, G C ^a,b   Dholakia, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DRUG THERAPY; FLUIDICS; FRACTIONATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PROTEINS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLUTIONS;

KINETIC MOTION; LIGHT FIELD;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

COLLOID; LIQUID-SOLID SEPARATION; MICROFILTRATION; NON-INTRUSIVE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; SEPARATION;

OPTICAL METHOD; SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; GEOMETRY; KINETICS; LIGHT; LIQUID; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX;

CAPSULES; COLLOIDS; FRACTIONATION, FIELD FLOW; LIGHT; MICROFLUIDICS; MOTION; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 0345414155     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02144     Document Type: Article

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