All-electronic droplet generation on-chip with real-time feedback control for EWOD digital microfluidics

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 898-906

  Gong, Jian ^a   Kim, Chang Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 44349125664     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b717417a     Document Type: Article

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