ArticleScientific reports2016
Manipulating and assembling metallic beads with Optoelectronic Tweezers.
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- Particle-Assisted Optoelectronic Tweezers for Manipulating Single Cells and Microparticles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Insulator-Based Dielectrophoresis for Purifying Semiconductor Industry-Compatible Chemicals with Trace Nanoparticles.JACS Au · 2025Article
- Photopyroelectric tweezers for versatile manipulation.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2025Article
- Microparticle electrical conductivity measurement using optoelectronic tweezers.Journal of applied physics · 2023Article
- Electromagnetic Forces and Torques: From Dielectrophoresis to Optical Tweezers.Chemical reviews · 2023Review
- Field-Controlled Microrobots Fabricated by Photopolymerization.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Review
- Parallel Manipulation and Flexible Assembly of Micro-SpiralFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Reconfigurable multi-component micromachines driven by optoelectronic tweezers.Nature communications · 2021Article
- A Versatile Optoelectronic Tweezer System for Micro-Objects Manipulation: Transportation, Patterning, Sorting, Rotating and Storage.Micromachines · 2021Article
- Atomistic modeling and rational design of optothermal tweezers for targeted applications.Nano research · 2021Article
- The Effect of Optically Induced Dielectrophoresis (ODEP)-Based Cell Manipulation in a Microfluidic System on the Properties of Biological Cells.Biosensors · 2020Article
- A Review on Optoelectrokinetics-Based Manipulation and Fabrication of Micro/Nanomaterials.Micromachines · 2020Review
- Optoelectrokinetics-based microfluidic platform for bioapplications: A review of recent advances.Biomicrofluidics · 2019Review
- The optoelectronic microrobot: A versatile toolbox for micromanipulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Graphene-edge dielectrophoretic tweezers for trapping of biomolecules.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Bridging the Gap: Rewritable Electronics Using Real-Time Light-Induced Dielectrophoresis on Lithium Niobate.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Optoelectronic tweezers (OET) or light-patterned dielectrophoresis (DEP) has been developed as a micromanipulation technology for controlling micro- and nano-particles with applications such as cell sorting and studying cell communications. Additionally, the capability of moving small objects accurately and assembling them into arbitrary 2D patterns also makes OET an attractive technology for microfabrication applications. In this work, we demonstrated the use of OET to manipulate conductive silver-coated Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) microspheres (50 μm diameter) into tailored patterns. It was found that the microspheres could be moved at a max velocity of 3200 μm/s, corresponding to 4.2 nano-newton (10(-9) N) DEP force, and also could be positioned with high accuracy via this DEP force. The underlying mechanism for this strong DEP force is shown by our simulations to be caused by a significant increase of the electric field close to the particles, due to the interaction between the field and the silver shells coating the microspheres. The associated increase in electrical gradient causes DEP forces that are much stronger than any previously reported for an OET device, which facilitates manipulation of the metallic microspheres efficiently without compromise in positioning accuracy and is important for applications on electronic component assembling and circuit construction.
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