Manipulating and assembling metallic beads with Optoelectronic Tweezers.

ABSTRACT: Optoelectronic tweezers (OET) or light-patterned dielectrophoresis (DEP) has been developed as a micromanipulation technology for controlling micro- and nano-particles with applications such as cell sorting and studying cell communications. Additionally, the capability of moving small objects accurately and assembling them into arbitrary 2D patterns also makes OET an attractive technology for microfabrication applications. In this work, we demonstrated the use of OET to manipulate conductive silver-coated Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) microspheres (50 μm diameter) into tailored patterns. It was found that the microspheres could be moved at a max velocity of 3200 μm/s, corresponding to 4.2 nano-newton (10(-9) N) DEP force, and also could be positioned with high accuracy via this DEP forc

SUBMITTER: Zhang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5013433 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature