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Apparatus for switching and manipulating particles and method of use thereof

  • US 6,596,143 B1
  • Filed: 10/03/2000
  • Issued: 07/22/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A device for producing traveling wave electric fields, comprising:

  • at least three pathways which meet at a common junction, each of said pathways comprising a plurality of electrodes, wherein the plurality of electrodes in each of said pathways is electrically independent of the plurality of electrodes in the other pathways; and

    a signal source electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes in each of said pathways, wherein said signal source provides out-of-phase signals to the individual members of said plurality of electrodes in each pathway so as to produce a traveling wave electric field in each of said pathways.

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