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Nature Materials 4, 579 - 580 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1436
Micromanipulation: Optoelectronic tweezers
Kishan Dholakia1
- Kishan Dholakia is at SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9SS, UK. e-mail: kd1@st-and.ac.uk
Abstract
A low-power light image projected on a photoconductive layer can initiate non-uniform electric fields over a large area, and allow the manipulation and sorting of particles without wires and electrodes and in the absence of flow.
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