The first experimental evidence of mixing enhancement in a microfluidic system using contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) is presented in this work. Pressure-driven flow of deionized water containing 0.5 μm beads was mixed in various chamber geometries by imposing a dielectrophoresis (DEP) force on the beads. In cDEP the electrodes are not in direct contact with the fluid sample but are instead...

Pea protoplasts dielectrophoretic coefficients were measured in alternating electric fields of frequency 1 MHz and voltage 5 V applied between two concentric cylindrical metal electrodes of outer and inner radii 0.24 mm and 1 mm, respectively. They do not vary significantly with solution osmolarity, but* show a clear expressed maximum in isotonic conditions; the values in 0.4 m , 0.5 m , 0.6 m ...

Basic IC fabrication techniques are employed in this paper with the purpose of designing a microfluidic device with a 3D electrode arrangement to separate live and dead biological cells. This is done using the concept of dielectrophoresis, which describes the transnational motion of particles due to the application of a non-uniform electrical field. The simulations where carried out using the p...

We report a simplified flow cytometer design that makes use of negative dielectrophoresis (DEP) for particle focusing and integrated optical and AC impedance detectors to enable an inexpensive, compact and robust system for cell and particle characterization. This straightforward, modular design could be applied as a standalone instrument or as a particle detector in an integrated micro total a...

We present the initial results of a cytometer that uses an array of extruded high-performance dielectrophoretic traps to capture, hold, and selectively release multiple single bioparticles. We have fabricated small arrays of traps and demonstrated single-bead and single-cell trapping, electrically switched bead release from single traps, fluorescence microscopy of trapped viable single cells, a...