Surface acoustic wave driven microfluidics - A review

Micro and Nanosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 217-225

  Luong, Trung Dung ^a   Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Concentrating; Continuous flow; Droplet based; Microfluidics; Mixing; Pumping; Sorting; Surface acoustic wave

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; DROPS; MIXING; OPTICAL PUMPING; SORTING;

BULK LIQUID; CONCENTRATING; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW SYSTEM; FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SAW-MICROFLUIDICS; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 78651538265     PISSN: 18764029     EISSN: 18764037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1876402911002030217     Document Type: Article

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