Contactless dielectrophoretic handling of diamagnetic levitating water droplets in air

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3293-3296

  Kauffmann, P ^a,b   Pham, P ^b   Masse, A ^a   Kustov, M ^a   Honegger, T ^b   Peyrade, D ^b   Haguet, V ^b   Reyne, G ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Diamagnetic levitation; dielectrophoresis; digital microfluidics; lab on a chip; magnetophoresis

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHORESIS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; TIN OXIDES;

COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS; CONTAMINATION-FREE; DIAMAGNETIC LEVITATION; DIELECTROPHORETIC FORCES; INDIUM TIN OXIDE ELECTRODES; MAGNETOPHORESIS; MAXWELL STRESS TENSOR METHOD; POINT DIPOLE MODELS;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 77954846102     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2045361     Document Type: Article

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