Dielectrophoretic choking phenomenon in a converging-diverging microchannel
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Dielectrophoretic choking phenomenon in a converging-diverging microchannel.
Experiments show that particles smaller than the throat size of converging-diverging microchannels can sometimes be trapped near the throat. This critical phenomenon is associated with the negative dc dielectrophoresis arising from nonuniform electric fields in the microchannels. A finite-element model, accounting for the particle-fluid-electric field interactions, is employed to investigate th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biomicrofluidics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1932-1058
DOI: 10.1063/1.3279787