| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1804219 | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2007 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
A novel platform for microfluidic manipulation of magnetic particles is discussed. The particles are confined by an array of magnetic spin valves with bistable ferromagnetic “ON” and antiferromagnetic “OFF” net magnetization states. The switchable fringing fields near the spin-valve traps can be used to selectively confine or release particles for transport or sorting. Spin-valve traps may be potentially used as magnetic molecular tweezers or adapted to a low-power magnetic random access memory (MRAM) switching architecture for massively parallel particle sorting applications.
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Authors
Elizabeth Mirowski, John Moreland, Stephen Russek, Michael Donahue, Kuangwen Hsieh,