DNA electrophoresis in a sparse ordered post array

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ou, Jia ^a   Cho, Jaeseol ^a   Olson, Daniel W ^a   Dorfman, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS; COIL SIZES; DISPERSIVITY; DNA TRANSPORT; ELECTRIC FIELD GRADIENTS; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICRO-SCALE; NONUNIFORM ELECTRIC FIELD; STRONG ELECTRIC FIELDS; UNIFORM ELECTRIC FIELDS; VIDEOMICROSCOPY;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DNA; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650886441     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.061904     Document Type: Article

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