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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300422303321

Autore

Esseling Michael

Titolo

Photorefractive Optoelectronic Tweezers and Their Applications / / by Michael Esseling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-09318-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 p.)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

681.757

Soggetti

Amorphous substances

Complex fluids

Lasers

Photonics

Nanotechnology

Biophysics

Nanoscience

Nanostructures

Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics

Nanoscale Science and Technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Doctoral Thesis accepted by University of Münster, Germany."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Electrokinetic Forces in Inhomogeneous Fields -- Electric Fields and Their Detection in Photorefractive Crystals -- Investigation of Photorefractive Substrate Materials -- Optically-Induced Dielectrophoretic Particle Trapping -- Optofluidic Applications for POT -- Summary -- Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

In the never-ending quest for miniaturization, optically controlled particle trapping has opened up new possibilities for handling microscopic matter non-invasively. This thesis presents the application of photorefractive crystals as active substrate materials for



optoelectronic tweezers. In these tweezers, flexible optical patterns are transformed into electrical forces by a photoconductive material, making it possible to handle matter with very high forces and high throughput. Potential substrate materials’ properties are investigated and ways to tune their figures-of-merit are demonstrated. A large part of the thesis is devoted to potential applications in the field of optofluidics, where photorefractive optoelectronic tweezers are used to trap, sort and guide droplets or particles in microfluidic channels, or to shape liquid polymers into optical elements prior to their solidification. Furthermore, a new surface discharge model is employed to discuss the experimental conditions needed for photorefractive optoelectronic tweezers.