Thermal Manipulation of Water Droplets - A Path to Droplet Microfluidics

Sanhita Dixit; Arseny Vasilyev; Aya Eid; Gregory Faris

doi:10.1364/FIO.2011.FMH6

Frontiers in Optics 2011/Laser Science XXVII
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2011),
paper FMH6
•https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2011.FMH6

Thermal Manipulation of Water Droplets - A Path to Droplet Microfluidics

Sanhita Dixit, Arseny Vasilyev, Aya Eid, and Gregory Faris

Frontiers in Optics 2011

San Jose, California United States
16–20 October 2011
ISBN: 978-1-55752-917-6

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Special Symposium on Integrated Optofluidics for the Life Sciences II (FMH)

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S. Dixit, A. Vasilyev, A. Eid, and G. Faris, "Thermal Manipulation of Water Droplets - A Path to Droplet Microfluidics," in Frontiers in Optics 2011/Laser Science XXVII, OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2011), paper FMH6.

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Abstract

Optical manipulation of water droplets in an oil matrix is important in the development of droplet microfluidics. In this report we demonstrate infrared laser based droplet manipulation using the thermal Marangoni effect and thermal convection.

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