A platform capable of seamlessly unifying both optoelectrowetting and optoelectronic tweezers has been developed by Justin Valley and co-workers from the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center.
The device requires no lithographically defined microelectrodes as it uses light patterning to define the electrodes, which means that manipulation of droplets and the particles within these droplets can occur anywhere on the device surface. Switching between manipulating droplets to manipulating the particles in those droplets is merely a case of altering an externally applied electric frequency.
Learn more about the device by reading this HOT article, which is free to access for the next 4 weeks!
A unified platform for optoelectrowetting and optoelectronic tweezers
Justin K. Valley, Shao NingPei, Arash Jamshidi, Hsan-Yin Hsu and Ming C. Wu
Lab Chip, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0LC00568A
