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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Joanna Aizenberg, New Providence, NJ (US);
Marc Scott Hodes, New Providence, NJ (US);
Paul Robert Kolodner, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Thomas Nikita Krupenkin, Warren, NJ (US);
Joseph Ashley Taylor, Springfield, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A device comprising a substrate having a surface that comprises a conductive base layer. The device also comprises fluid-support-structures on the conductive base layer. Each of the fluid-support-structures has at least one dimension of about 1 millimeter or less. Each of the fluid-support-structures is coated with an electrical insulator. The device is configured to oscillate a fluid locatable between tops of the fluid-support-structures and the conductive base layer when a voltage is applied between the conductive base layer and the fluid.