Journal
IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 693-704Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2016.2639821
Keywords
Fluidic microsystems; laser applications; microactuators; microfluidics; surface tension
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Funding
- Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme
- Belgian Science Policy Office [IAP 7/38 MicroMAST]
- Labex ACTION Project [ANR-11-LABX-01-01]
- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche through the LEMA Project [ANR 12 BS03 007 01]
- PHC Tournesol [34237PC]
- Region Franche-Comte
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This paper proposes a new actuation principle for noncontact actuation. Thermocapillary convection is a promising principle to manipulate particles at the fluid/gas interface. Compared with approaches based on natural and Marangoni convections, our approach uses thermocapillary convection generated by a laser heating the fluid from the top and not from the bottom. This has several advantages, the most relevant being that it does not depend on an hydrodynamic instability to onset the flow motion. Laser heating creates large localized thermal gradients that make the flow velocity fast and localized. Simulations show that flow velocities up to 8.5 mm/s can be obtained using as little power as 38 mW with a temperature increase as little as 4 degrees C. As a proof of concept, steel spherical particles of 500 mu m diameter are successfully displaced using this principle, which attain a mean maximal speed up to 4 mm/s. Also, 1000-mu m-diameter steel spherical particles are displaced along a given trajectory using a manual control. These results first demonstrate the high potential of this new approach based on thermocapillary convection for controlled noncontact actuation at high speeds at microscale.
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