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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2013
Applicant:
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US);
Inventors:
Xiaoyun Ding, State College, PA (US);
Tony Jun Huang, State College, PA (US);
Assignee:
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/36 (2006.01); H02N 2/08 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01); B07C 5/342 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02N 2/08 (2013.01); B01L 3/502761 (2013.01); B07C 5/3427 (2013.01); B01L 3/502707 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0636 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0652 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0864 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0436 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for manipulating particles uses tunable standing surface acoustic waves includes a channel defined on a substrate and a pair of variable frequency interdigital transducers. The channel is disposed asymmetrically between the transducers such that the zero order node location is outside of a working region in the channel.