Thermocapillary micromanipulation: laser-induced convective flows towards controlled handling of particles at the free surface

EN: There is an industrial need for new technologies that can manipulate objects in the micrometric scale (1-1000 μm). In this thesis, an original non-contact actuation technique for the manipulation of microscale objects is proposed. The proposal is to use laser-induced thermocapillary convective f...

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Main Author: Terrazas Mallea, Ronald
Other Authors: Lambert, Pierre
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/262343