Diamagnetic levitation based MEMS for biology, µfluidics and Filtering or Sorting

Diamagnetic levitation is one of the rare way to compensate action of gravity. This kind of repulsion is negligible at our scale. However, at microscale, this effect becomes significant and can achieve levitation of diamagnetic objects. Through the development of micromagnets of numerical and analytical models as well as experimental achievements , these works explore the potential of diamagnetic levitation microdroplets and particles in a paramagnetic environment. They especially demonstrate the ability to accurately measure the interaction between charged droplets levitated . These studies analyze further the study of this levitation combined with dielectrophoretic force . This study opens new perspectives for sorting diamagnetic ball based on their size or susceptibility. Dielectrophoresis opens possibilities in the field for actuating contactless microbeads levitated.

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Source https://theses.hal.science/tel-00951409
Author Masse, Alain
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 6, 2026, 06:21 (UTC)
Created May 6, 2026, 06:21 (UTC)
Identifier NNT: 2013GRENT052
Language fr
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contributor Laboratoire de Génie Electrique de Grenoble (G2ELab) ; Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Masse, Alain
date 2013-10-17T00:00:00
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