Abstract: An optical tweezers lifting apparatus is provided. The optical tweezers lifting apparatus includes an optical tweezers and a particle-lifting device. The particle-lifting device includes a substrate and a plurality of electrodes that are disposed on the bottom of a flow path in the substrate. When a dielectrophoresis (DEP) solution with a plurality of floating particles is conducted into the flow path and upon those electrodes and a voltage is applied to these electrodes, these particles would be driven by a negative DEP force to move upward to a specific depth in the flow path. Meanwhile, the optical tweezers of the apparatus is selectively focused at the specific depth in the flow path.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 17, 2008
Date of Patent:
November 9, 2010
Assignees:
Raydium Semiconductor Corp.
Inventors:
Cheng-Hsien Liu, William Wang, Long Hsu, Chung-Cheng Chou, Sheng-Yang Tseng, Chen Peng, Fung-Hsu Wu, Ta-Yuan Lee