Modulation of aspect ratio for complete separation in an inertial microfluidic channel.

@article{Zhou2013ModulationOA,
  title={Modulation of aspect ratio for complete separation in an inertial microfluidic channel.},
  author={Jian Zhou and Premkumar Vummidi Giridhar and Susan Kasper and Ian Papautsky},
  journal={Lab on a chip},
  year={2013},
  volume={13 10},
  pages={
          1919-29
        }
}
Inertial microfluidics has been attracting considerable interest in recent years due to immensely promising applications in cell separations and sorting. Despite the intense attention, the moderate efficiencies and low purity of the reported devices have hindered their widespread acceptance. In this work, we report on a simple inertial microfluidic system with high efficiency (>99%) and purity (>90%). Our system builds on the concept of two-stage inertial migration which permits precise… 
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