Prototype of a novel micro-machined cytometer and its 3D hydrodynamic focusing properties

Microsystem Technologies

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1991-2001

  Wang, Yong Quan ^a   Wang, Jing Yuan ^a   Chen, Hua Ling ^a   Zhu, Zi Cai ^a   Wang, Bing ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOMETERS; CYTOMETRIC DEVICES; FOCUSING PERFORMANCE; GEOMETRY PARAMETER; HYDRODYNAMIC FOCUSING; INTERACTION BEHAVIOR; MICRO-FLOW; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC STRUCTURES; NOVEL STRUCTURES; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; TWO FLUID MODEL; VELOCITY RATIO; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD;

EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; FOCUSING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84870241954     PISSN: 09467076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00542-012-1525-x     Document Type: Article

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