The effect of electrode height on the performance of travelling-wave electroosmotic micropumps

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 307-312

  Garcia Sanchez P ^a   Ramos, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROOSMOSIS; METALLIZING; SURFACE DEFECTS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ARRAYS OF MICROELECTRODES; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; ELECTRODE HEIGHT; ELECTROOSMOTIC; FLUID VELOCITIES; KEY FACTORS; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; MICRO-ELECTRODE ARRAYS; MICRO-PUMPS; TRAVELLING WAVES; VISCOUS FRICTION;

MICROELECTRODES;

EID: 49049114814     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-007-0247-3     Document Type: Article

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