A new working principle for ac electro-hydrodynamic on-chip micro-pumps

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6850-6856

  Stubbe, Marco ^a   Holtappels, Moritz ^b   Gimsa, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROKINETIC FORCES; INTEGRATED HEATING ELEMENTS; MICROPUMPS; PUMP CHANNELS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC HEATING ELEMENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROOSMOSIS; FLUID MECHANICS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 35548964780     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/40/21/055     Document Type: Article

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