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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2008
Applicants:
Tony Jun Huang, State College, PA (US);
Xiaole Mao, State College, PA (US);
Inventors:
Tony Jun Huang, State College, PA (US);
Xiaole Mao, State College, PA (US);
Assignee:
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A microfluidic device comprises inlets for a sample flow and an out-of-plane focusing sheath flow, and a curved channel section configured to receive the sample flow and out-of-plane focusing sheath and to provide hydrodynamic focusing of the sample flow in an out-of-plane direction, the out-of-plane direction being normal to a plane including the curved channel.