Sandia Corporation

Mark D Zimmerman

Ronald Francis Renzi

Scott Morris Maurer

Alfredo M Morales

Huu Minh Tran

Josh A Whaley

William D Munslow

A new microfluidic system comprising an automated prototype insulator-based dielectrophoresis (iDEP) triggering microfluidic device for pathogen monitoring that can eventually be run outside the laboratory in a real world environment has been used to demonstrate the feasibility of automated trapping and detection of particles. The system broadly comprised an aerosol collector for collecting air-borne particles, an iDEP chip within which to temporarily trap the collected particles and a laser and fluorescence detector with which to induce a fluorescence signal and detect a change in that signal as particles are trapped within the iDEP chip.

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Livermore, CA, United States of America

Mark D Zimmerman