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Providing DEP manipulation devices and controllable electrowetting devices in the same microfluidic apparatus

US10245588B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Berkeley Lights, Inc. · US

Inventors

Igor Y. Khandros · Orinda, US
Daniele Malleo · Corona, US
J. Tanner Nevill · El Cerrito, US
Steven W. Short · Pleasanton, US
Ming-Che Wu · Gongguan, TW

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 29, 2017
Grant date	Apr 2, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 29, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB03C2201/26
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A structure for providing a boundary for a chamber in a microfluidic apparatus can comprise dielectrophoresis (DEP) configurations each having an outer surface and electrowetting (EW) configurations each having an electrowetting surface. The DEP configurations can facilitate generating net DEP forces with respect to the outer surfaces of the DEP configurations to move micro-objects on the outer surfaces, and the EW configurations can facilitate changing wetting properties of the electrowetting surfaces to move droplets of liquid medium on the electrowetting surfaces.

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