Side-wall vertical electrodes for lateral field microfluidic applications

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 454-461

  Wang, Lisen ^a   Flanagan, Lisa ^b   Lee, Abraham P ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformably bonding; Dielectrophoresis (DEP); Electroplating; Flexible PDMS; Lateral manipulation; Magnetohydrodynmic (MHD); Microfluidics; Multilayer SU 8; Surface topology; Vertical electrodes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPLATING; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DIELECTROPHORESIS (DEP); VERTICAL ELECTRODES;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 34147140510     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2006.889530     Document Type: Article

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