Figure 36.

Fabricated device (a) for moving a levitated droplet of water on a film of FC-43 oil toward the hot spot where the underlying heater is switched on (b,c). Pictures (c) is taken by a FLIR SC5000 infrared thermal camera and shows the temperature gradient. Copyright 2011, IEEE. Reprinted and modified, with permission, from [182], E. Yakhshi-Tafti, R. Kumar, and H. Cho, “Thermally-actuated high speed droplet manipulation platform”, in Proceedings of 2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference (TRANSDUCERS), 2011, pp. 1484–1487.