A dielectrophoretic chip with a 3-D electric field gradient

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1506-1513

  Iliescu, Ciprian ^a   Yu, Liming ^b   Xu, Guolin ^a   Tay, Francis E H ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dielectrophoresis (DEP); Microfluidic device; Silicon electrodes; Three dimensional (3 D) electric field gradient

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SILICON;

DIELECTROPHORETIC CHIP; ELECTRIC FIELD GRADIENT; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33845536202     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2006.883567     Document Type: Article

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