Abstract: Provided herein is a droplet actuator including (a) first and second substrates separated by a droplet-operations gap, the first and second substrates including respective hydrophobic surfaces that face the droplet-operations gap; (b) a plurality of electrodes coupled to at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the electrodes arranged along the droplet-operations gap to control movement of a droplet along the hydrophobic surfaces within the droplet-operations gap; and (c) a hydrophilic or variegated-hydrophilic surface exposed to the droplet-operations gap, the hydrophilic or variegated-hydrophilic surface being positioned to contact the droplet when the droplet is at a select position within the droplet-operations gap.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 29, 2014
Publication date:
July 14, 2016
Applicant:
Advanced Liquid Logic France SAS
Inventors:
Arash Jamshidi, Yan-You Lin, Alex Aravanis, Cyril Delattre, Arnaud Rival, Jennifer Foley, Poorya Sabounchi, Tarun Khurana, Majid Babazadeh, Hamed Amini, Bala Murali Venkatesan, M. Shane Bowen, Steven M. Barnard, Maria Candelaria Rogert Bacigalupo, Dietrich Dehlinger