Optoelectronic tweezers
AssigneeUniversity Court of the University of St Andrews
InventorsKishan Dholakia, Thomas F. Krauss, Simon John Cran-McGreehin
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Abstract
An on-chip micro-fluidic device (10) fabricated using a semiconductor material. The device has a micro-fluidic channel or chamber (14) defined within the material and one or more monolithically integrated semiconductor lasers (12) operate to form an optical trap in the channel or chamber (14).
Claims8
An on-chip monolithic micro-fluidic device fabricated using a semiconductor material, the device having a micro-fluidic channel or chamber defined within the semiconductor material and one or more monolithically integrated semiconductor lasers defined in the semiconductor material that forms the channel, the one or more semiconductor lasers being operable to form at least one optical trap or partial optical trap in the channel or chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.