Microfluidic mixing through electrowetting-induced droplet oscillations

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Mugele, F ^a,b   Baret, J C ^a,c   Steinhauser, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DROP FORMATION; GLYCEROL; MIXING; OSCILLATIONS; VISCOSITY; WATER; WETTING;

DROP SIZE; DROPLETS; ELECTROWETTING; MICROFLUIDICS;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 33646897005     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2204831     Document Type: Article

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