Electrowetting and electrowetting-on-dielectric for microscale liquid handling

By Junghoon Lee, Hyejin Moon, Jesse D. Fowler, T. Schoellhammer, Chang-Jin Kim. 2002

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Dynamics of electro-wetting droplet transport (2002, methodology): “# 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. Keywords: Microfluidics; Electro-wetting; Actuation; Droplets; Transport dynamics”
Characterization of Nontoxic Liquid-Metal Alloy Galinstan for Applications in Microdevices (2012, methodology): “Relations between the applied voltage and the resulting contact angle are described by the Lippmann–Young equation [20]”
MODELING SHAPES AND DYNAMICS OF CONFINED BUBBLES (2006, background): “For good discussions for the electrical case, so-called electrowetting, see Pollack et al. (2000), Lee et al. (2002), Squires & Quake (2005), and the references within.”
Microvalves and Micropumps for BioMEMS (2011, background): “In parallel work, Kim’s group demonstrated the use of non-dielectric electrowetting and EWOD to handle aqueous liquid in microfluidic devices with air as a surrounding medium [107].”
Light actuation of liquid by optoelectrowetting (2003, background): “The optoelectrowetting surface is realized by integrating a photoconductive material underneath a two-dimensional array of electrowetting electrodes.”
Towards digital microfluidic circuits: creating, transporting, cutting and merging liquid droplets by electrowetting-based actuation (2002, methodology): “All four operations were achieved with 25 VDC, much lower than previously reported [7, 8].”
Creating, transporting, cutting, and merging liquid droplets by electrowetting-based actuation for digital microfluidic circuits (2003, background): “All four fundamental operations were successfully performed in an air-filled environment with 25 V , much lower than the EWOD actuation voltages in air previously reported [10], [12]–[14], [16], [17].”
Analysis and experiment of capillary valves for microfluidics on a rotating disk (2008, background): “Capillary valves may be designed actively utilizing different effects such as electrocapillary and thermocapillary (Marangoni) to change surface tensions of the meniscus ( Lee et al. 2002; Nguyen and Huang 2005).”
Electrowetting droplet microfluidics on a single planar surface (2006, background): “…developed systems for manipulating droplets by using arrays of electrodes to impose droplet translation, combination, division, and mixing (Cho et al. 2003; Gascoyne et al. 2004; Jones et al. 2001; Lee et al. 2002; Pollack et al. 2000, 2002; Torkkeli et al. 2001; Torres et al. 2004; Washizu 1998).”
Dielectrophoresis-based sample handling in general-purpose programmable diagnostic instruments (2004, methodology): “This approach was extended to two dimensions by Kim et al. [111] and by Fair et al. [112], who have both demonstrated droplet processing concepts based on electrowetting.”