Bidirectional field-flow particle separation method in a dielectrophoretic chip with 3D electrodes

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 491-496

  Iliescu, Ciprian ^a   Yu, Liming ^b   Tay, Francis E H ^a,b   Chen, Bangtao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bio MEMS; Cell separation; Dielectrophoresis; Microfluidic device

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHORESIS; METALLIZING; MICROFLUIDICS;

CELL SEPARATION; DIELECTROPHORESIS; METALLIZATION LAYERS; MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 38149084133     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2007.11.023     Document Type: Article

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