Efficient chip architectures for a microfluidic cell sorter actuated by electrowetting and its electrohydrodynamic analysis

We present the design and development of sorter architectures in conjunction with corresponding intelligent physical sorting algorithms for a chip-based microfluidic cell sorter actuated by the electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) mechanism [1,8]. This microfluidic chip realizes an implementation of FACS (fluorescence activated cell sorting) [2], which operates on EWOD-manipulated droplets containing cells to be sorted.