Three-wing optical mixer design, fabrication and application to a μ-TAS

IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Ukita, Hiroo ^a,c   Takada, Kosaku ^b   Akagi, Daisuke ^a,c   Ohnishi, Takakazu ^a,c   Nonohara, Yasunari ^a,b  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

TAS; Chaotic flow; Mixing; Optical mixer; Optical tweezers; Photolithography

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC FLOW; OPTICAL MIXERS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

COLLOIDS; MIXING; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846207419     PISSN: 13418939     EISSN: 13475525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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