Electrowetting droplet actuation in micro scale devices

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 7943-7951

  Mohseni, Kamran ^a,c   Dolatabadi, Ali ^b  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE TENSION;

ELECTROWETTING DROPLET ACTUATION; LIQUID HANDLING; LIQUID-SOLID INTERFACES; TRANSIENT VELOCITIES;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 30744439575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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