Milliliter-to-microliter platform for on-demand loading of aqueous and non-aqueous droplets to digital microfluidics

2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1260-1263

  Shah, G J ^a   Ding, H J ^a   Sadeghi, S ^a   Chen, S ^b   Kim, C J ^b   Van Dam, R M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

digital microfluidics; electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD); on demand loading; World to chip interface

Indexed keywords

BIO-CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS; CARRIER FLUIDS; CROSS CONTAMINATION; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS; ELECTROWETTING ON DIELECTRICS; KEY FEATURE; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; NON-AQUEOUS; NON-AQUEOUS LIQUIDS; OFF-CHIP; ON-DEMAND LOADING; PROOF OF CONCEPT; WORLD-TO-CHIP INTERFACE;

ACTUATORS; DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS; DROP FORMATION; INERT GASES; LOADING; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSYSTEMS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; WETTING;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 80052132306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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