Figure 6.

Continuous particle separation using a fabricated nanofluidic device. Particles that have similar sizes but different electrophoretic mobilities are selected for electrical force-based continuous separation (1.0 μm-diameter particle with a relatively large electrophoretic mobility (μep,1.0μm = −8.6 × 10–4 cm2 V–1 s–1) and 1.1 μm-diameter particle with a relatively low electrophoretic mobility (μep,1.1μm = −6.5 × 10–4 cm2 V–1 s–1)).