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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 98, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3600775
Keywords
bioMEMS; cellular biophysics; electric motors; lab-on-a-chip; microfluidics; surface acoustic wave devices; water
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- CSIRO
- Australian Research Council [DP0985266]
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We report on the design of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) driven fluid-coupled micromotor which runs at high rotational velocities. A pair of opposing SAWs generated on a lithium niobate substrate are each obliquely passed into either side of a fluid drop to drive rotation of the fluid, and the thin circular disk set on the drop. Using water for the drop, a 5 mm diameter disk was driven with rotation speeds and start-up torques up to 2250 rpm and 60 nN m, respectively. Most importantly for lab-on-a-chip applications, radial accelerations of 172 m/s(2) was obtained, presenting possibilities for microcentrifugation, flow sequencing, assays, and cell culturing in truly microscale lab-on-a-chip devices. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3600775]
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