In this study, particle sorting and transportation in Brownian liquids were explored by translating an optical standing wave. The standing wave is produced by crossing two coherent beams of light, and determining the resulting period by the angle of the intersection. Adjusting the period and velocity of wave ridges allows one to move particles of one size while leaving particles of another size behind — a noninvasive cell and virus sorting technique. The random nature of Brownian motion on these particles was also explored.

Last modified

• 07/18/2018

Creator

• Paul West
• Weiqiang Mu
• J.B.Ketterson

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N23X5N

Keyword

• Volume 4

Date created

• 2007

Resource type

• Article

Rights statement

• In Copyright