ArticleBiomicrofluidics2015
A novel alternating current multiple array electrothermal micropump for lab-on-a-chip applications.
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- Simulation of the Slip Velocity Effect in an AC Electrothermal Micropump.Micromachines · 2020Article
- AC Electrothermal Effect in Microfluidics: A Review.Micromachines · 2019Review
- Pressure-Driven Micro-Casting for Electrode Fabrication and Its Applications in Wear Grain Detections.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Simultaneous Pumping and Mixing of Biological Fluids in a Double-Array Electrothermal Microfluidic Device.Micromachines · 2019Article
- Joule heating-induced particle manipulation on a microfluidic chip.Biomicrofluidics · 2019Article
- An AC electrothermal self-circulating system with a minimalist process to construct a biomimetic liver lobule model for drug testing.RSC advances · 2018Article
- A High-Throughput Electrokinetic Micromixer via AC Field-Effect Nonlinear Electroosmosis Control in 3D Electrode Configurations.Micromachines · 2018Article
- Asymmetrical Induced Charge Electroosmotic Flow on a Herringbone Floating Electrode and Its Application in a Micromixer.Micromachines · 2018Article
- Review: Electric field driven pumping in microfluidic device.Electrophoresis · 2018Review
- On the Bipolar DC Flow Field-Effect-Transistor for Multifunctional Sample Handing in Microfluidics: A Theoretical Analysis under the Debye⁻Huckel Limit.Micromachines · 2018Article
- In-plane microvortices micromixer-based AC electrothermal for testing drug induced death of tumor cells.Biomicrofluidics · 2016Article
- On utilizing alternating current-flow field effect transistor for flexibly manipulating particles in microfluidics and nanofluidics.Biomicrofluidics · 2016Article
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Abstract
The AC electrothermal technique is very promising for biofluid micropumping, due to its ability to pump high conductivity fluids. However, compared to electroosmotic micropumps, a lack of high fluid flow is a disadvantage. In this paper, a novel AC multiple array electrothermal (MAET) micropump, utilizing multiple microelectrode arrays placed on the side-walls of the fluidic channel of the micropump, is introduced. Asymmetric coplanar microelectrodes are placed on all sides of the microfluidic channel, and are actuated in different phases: one, two opposing, two adjacent, three, or all sides at the same time. Micropumps with different combinations of side electrodes and cross sections are numerically investigated in this paper. The effect of the governing parameters with respect to thermal, fluidic, and electrical properties are studied and discussed. To verify the simulations, the AC MAET concept was then fabricated and experimentally tested. The resulted fluid flow achieved by the experiments showed good agreement with the corresponding simulations. The number of side electrode arrays and the actuation patterns were also found to greatly influence the micropump performance. This study shows that the new multiple array electrothermal micropump design can be used in a wide range of applications such as drug delivery and lab-on-a-chip, where high flow rate and high precision micropumping devices for high conductivity fluids are needed.
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