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Electromagnetic micromotor for microfluidics applications

Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 1399 (2001); doi:10.1063/1.1398319

Issue Date: 27 August 2001

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Mladen Barbic, Jack J. Mock, Andrew P. Gray, and S. Schultz
Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0319
An electromagnetic micromotor has been developed that combines microcoils and magnetic microtips as stator elements and individual permanent magnet single domain particles as rotors. The three-phase stator microcoils (with poles separated by 100 µm) are positioned outside the fluid, and the rotor (a 40 µm long, 1 µm diam permanent magnet) spins in aqueous solution 50 µm from the stator. The small size and essentially disposable rotors make the magnetic micromotor attractive for use in microfluidics systems for various physical, chemical, and biological applications. ©2001 American Institute of Physics.
History: Received 28 March 2001; accepted 9 July 2001
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 85.85.+j
    Electronic and magnetic devices; microelectronics Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices
  • 07.07.Tw
    Instruments, apparatus, and components common to several branches of physics and astronomy General equipment Servo and control equipment; robots
  • 47.85.Np
    Fluid dynamics Applied fluid mechanics Fluidics
  • 84.50.+d
    Electronics; radiowave and microwave technology; direct energy conversion and storage Electric motors
  • 87.80.Mj
    Biological and medical physics Biological techniques and instrumentation; biomedical engineering Micromachining
  • YEAR: 2001

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