The integration of EWOD and SAW technologies for improved droplet manipulation and mixing

Li, Yifan, Flynn, Brian, Parkes, William, Liu, Yufei, Feng, Y., Ruthven, Alec, Terry, Jonathan, Haworth, Les, Bunting, A. and Stevenson, J. (2009) The integration of EWOD and SAW technologies for improved droplet manipulation and mixing. In: Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC'09), 14-18 September 2009, Athens.

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Abstract

This paper details the first reported integration of two advanced digital microfluidic technologies where 100 mum silicon cubes are transported with electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) and the droplet then held with EWOD while the silicon cubes are mixed with another liquid using a surface acoustic wave (SAW). Together these two technologies provide a comprehensive lab-on-a-chip combination with well developed functionalities. These include droplet generation, splitting and transportation offered by EWOD with transportation, mixing and biosensing being potentially available with SAW. The fabrication of both EWOD and SAW structures on LiNbO3 substrates used low temperature Ta/Ta2O5/CYTOP layer deposition and patterning technologies, which enabled efficient transportation and mixing functions to be demonstrated.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Subjects:	F200 Materials Science F300 Physics H600 Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering
Depositing User:	Yifan Li
Date Deposited:	26 Feb 2015 14:47
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 22:53
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/21232

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