Fig. 3. Performance of the SADA sorter in comparison with the prior art.

The performance of previously reported droplet sorters is constrained by the trade-off between sorting throughput and droplet volume (black line). The SADA sorter breaks this barrier and consequently achieved ~20 times higher performance in the product of sorting throughput and droplet volume as a figure of merit (red line). The inset shows images of sorted droplets containing large cells and cell clusters. Scale bars, 50 μm. A complete version of the comparison is available in fig. S7G.