Speed enhancement of multi-particle chain in a traveling standing wave

Martin Siler; Tomas Cizmar; Pavel Zemanek

doi:10.1063/1.3680234

Speed enhancement of multi-particle chain in a traveling standing wave

Martin Siler, Tomas Cizmar, Pavel Zemanek

School of Medicine

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Abstract

A moving array of optical traps created by interference of two counter-propagating evanescent waves has been used for delivery of particle chains up to 18 micro-particles long immersed in water. The particles were optically self-arranged into a linear chain with well-separated distances between them. We observed a significant increase in the delivery speed of the whole structure as the number of particles in the chain increased. This could provide faster sample delivery in microfluidic systems. We quantified the contributions to the speed enhancement caused by the optical and hydrodynamic interactions between the particles.

Original language	English
Article number	051103
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	100
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3680234
Publication status	Published - Jan 2012

Keywords

Hydrodynamic waves
Hydrodynamics
Evanescent waves
Particle velocity
Charged coupled devices
Kinematics

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