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Droplet actuation on a digital microfluidic chip using a 5 volt battery

Rezaei Nejad H., University of British Columbia, CA

This paper presents a circuit using a 5-volt DC battery to actuate droplets on a DMF chip. The output of the circuit is a controllable high voltage, high frequency AC signal which can actuate a [...]

Embeddable Low-Voltage Micropump using Electroosmosis of the Second Kind

Heldal T., Volden T., Auerswald J., Knapp H., IQ Micro Inc., CH

A low-voltage micropump with no moving parts and based on standard MEMS fabrication techniques has been developed. High pumping rate is achieved by using electroosmosis of the second kind (EO2). The pump has been characterized [...]