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ArticleMicromachines2023

Pressure Driven Rapid Reconfigurable Liquid Metal Patterning.

Bingxin Liu, Peng Qin, Mingyang Liu, Wei Liu, Pan Zhang, Zi Ye, Zhongshan Deng, Zhenming Li, Lin Gui

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Article in Micromachines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Bingxin LiuCAS Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Peng QinCAS Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Mingyang LiuEnergy Storage and Novel Technology of Electrical Engineering Department, China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing 100192, China.
Wei LiuEnergy Storage and Novel Technology of Electrical Engineering Department, China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing 100192, China.
Pan ZhangCAS Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Zi YeCAS Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Zhongshan DengCAS Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Zhenming LiEnergy Storage and Novel Technology of Electrical Engineering Department, China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing 100192, China.
Lin GuiCAS Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

Funding

the Science and Technology Program from State Grid Corporation of China 5700-202155453A-0-0-00
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for pressure driven rapid reconfigurable liquid metal patterning. A sandwich structure of "pattern-film-cavity" is designed to complete this function. Both sides of the highly elastic polymer film are bonded with two PDMS slabs. One PDMS slab has microchannels patterned on the surface. The other PDMS slab has a large cavity on its surface for liquid metal storage. These two PDMS slabs are bonded together, face to face, with the polymer film in the middle. In order to control the distribution of the liquid metal in the microfluidic chip, the elastic film will deform under the high pressure of the working medium in the microchannels and then extrude the liquid metal into different patterns in the cavity. This paper studies the factors of liquid metal patterning in detail, including external control conditions, such as the type and pressure of the working medium and the critical dimensions of the chip structure. Moreover, both a single-pattern and a double-pattern chip are fabricated in this paper, which can form or reconfigure the liquid metal pattern within 800 ms. Based on the above methods, reconfigurable antennas of two frequencies are designed and fabricated. Meanwhile, their performance is simulated and tested by simulation and vector network tests. The operating frequencies of the two antennas are respectively significantly switching between 4.66 GHz and 9.97 GHz.

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a method for liquid metal patterningcontrol liquid metalmicrochannelsreconfigurable antennas

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PMCPMC10146098

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