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Vol. 8 No. 3 (2016)

Trapping and Driving Individual Charged Micro-particles in Fluid with an Electrostatic Device

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-016-0087-3
Jingjing Xu
Key Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
Zijing Lei
Key Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
Jingkun Guo
Key Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
Jie Huang
Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
Wei Wang
Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
Uta Reibetanz
Medical Faculty, Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Shengyong Xu
Key Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Shengyong Xu

xusy@pku.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 8 No. 3 (2016), Article Number: 270-281

Abstract

A variety of micro-tweezers techniques, such as optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers, and dielectrophoresis technique, have been applied intensively in precise characterization of micro/nanoparticles and bio-molecules. They have contributed remarkably in better understanding of working mechanisms of individual sub-cell organelles, proteins, and DNA. In this paper, we present a controllable electrostatic device embedded in a microchannel, which is capable of driving, trapping, and releasing charged micro-particles suspended in microfluid, demonstrating the basic concepts of electrostatic tweezers. Such a device is scalable to smaller size and offers an alternative to currently used micro-tweezers for application in sorting, selecting, manipulating, and analyzing individual micro/nanoparticles. Furthermore, the system offers the potential in being combined with dielectrophoresis and other techniques to create hybrid micro-manipulation systems.

Keywords

Electrostatic tweezers Charged particles Coulomb potential well Manipulation Trap
Xu, Jingjing, Zijing Lei, Jingkun Guo, Jie Huang, Wei Wang, Uta Reibetanz, and Shengyong Xu. 2016. “Trapping and Driving Individual Charged Micro-Particles in Fluid With an Electrostatic Device”. Nano-Micro Letters 8 (3):270-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-016-0087-3.
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