Thermally mediated control of liquid microdroplets at a bifurcation

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Yap, Yit Fatt ^a   Tan, Say Hwa ^a,b   Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a   Murshed, S M Sohel ^a   Wong, Teck Neng ^a   Yobas, Levent ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A THERMALS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; CONTROL CONCEPTS; CONTROLLABLE SIZES; DROPLET-BASED DEVICES; DROPLET-BASED MICROFLUIDICS; FLUIDIC RESISTANCES; LIQUID MICRODROPLETS; MICRO HEATERS; MICRO-DROPLETS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPERATIONAL TEMPERATURES; THERMO CAPILLARITIES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 63749113207     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/42/6/065503     Document Type: Article

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