Computational Prototyping of the Programmable Fluid Processor
Computational Prototyping of the Programmable Fluid Processor
Jun Zeng and Tom Korsmeyer Coventor, Inc. The Programmable Fluid Processor (PFP), currently under development at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, will have applications in disease screening, environmental monitoring, and battlefield detection of biochemical agents [1]. In this device, an electrostatic field exerts forces on dielectric droplets suspended in an immiscible insulating liquid medium. This phenomenon is known as dielectrophoresis (DEP). The electrostatic field is generated by an array of