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Planar Optofluidics for On-Chip Particle Manipulation

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Biomedical Optical Sensors

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Optical forces can be used to mechanically manipulate small particles on the micrometre and sub-micrometre scales. We review the recent development of planar optofluidic devices that harness optical forces to control particle movement on a chip. Complementary implementations using solid-core and liquid-core optical waveguides are described, along with potential applications in biosensing and other fields.

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Financial support for this work by the National Institutes of Health (grants R21EB003430, R01EB006097, and 1R21AI100229), the National Science Foundation (grants ECS-0528730, CBET-1159453, CBET-1159423, CBET-1402848, and CBET-1402880), the Rogers Family Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract No. HR 0011-10-1-0075, and the W.M. Keck Foundation through the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics at UC Santa Cruz, is gratefully acknowledged.

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Cai, H., Leake, K.D., Schmidt, H. (2020). Planar Optofluidics for On-Chip Particle Manipulation. In: De La Rue, R., Herzig, H.P., Gerken, M. (eds) Biomedical Optical Sensors. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48387-6_7

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