Optical manipulation of microparticles in an SU-8/PDMS hybrid microfluidic chip incorporating a monolithically integrated on-chip lens set

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2033212
Author	Search for: Guo, Honglei; Search for: Zhao, Ping¹; Search for: Xiao, Gaozhi¹; Search for: Zhang, Zhiyi¹; Search for: Yao, Jianping
Affiliation	National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Microstructural Sciences
Format	Text, Article
Subject	Integrated devices; Microfluidic device; Optical manipulation
Abstract	An SU-8/PDMS microfluidic chip incorporating a monolithically integrated on-chip lens set for transport and manipulation of microparticles is developed. The components, including the on-chip lens set, the microfluidic channel, and the fiber grooves, are defined in a single layer of SU-8 by one-step photolithography. The design of the on-chip lens set and the fabrication of the microfluidic chip are fully described. The influence of the beam-waist radius on the manipulation performance is theoretically analyzed and experimentally verified for the first time. In the cross-type optofluidic architecture, the evaluation is performed by measuring the particle displacement with different beam-waist radii under different fluid-flow rates. The on-chip lens set is designed to have a specific dimension to achieve the required beam-waist radius. It is revealed that the particle displacement is counter-proportional to the beam-waist radius. An experiment is performed. The results show that the particle displacement is increased by reducing the beam-waist radius. The optical manipulation of microparticles is also demonstrated by using two counter-propagating light beams that are perpendicular to the fluid-flow direction with the beamwaist radius determined by two on-chip lens sets placed on the two sides of the microfluidic channel. The proposed architecture could be used to enhance the performance in particle transport, separation, and concentration.
Publication date	2010-07-01
In	IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics 16, no. 4 (1 July 2010): 919–926.
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NPARC number	17281064
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