Sofia Saoncella

Optical control of droplet motion on Fe-doped lithium niobate crystals

Towards a new droplets manipulation technique

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the innovative study on the local modification of surface wettability actuated by light by exploiting the photovoltaic properties of a photorefractive material, a lithium niobate crystal doped with iron. The project advances the first step towards the improvement of the already available electrowetting technology which uses electric voltages to manipulate aqueous droplets over metallic electrodes. The novel optowetting technique is aimed to get rid of fixed electrodes and hence to provide multi-purpose devices. Lithium niobate samples were properly selected and characterized and a search for the most suitable dielectric film was conducted in order to optimize the optowetting performances of the system. The wettability of the functionalized surfaces was evaluated by means of the contact angle of 1 miL water droplets and, using a systematic measurement protocol, the dynamics of the phenomenon was investigated. The results obtained shows that the virtual electrodes induced on the crystal surface by a laser source have a temporal duration of several hours in the case of specific compositional properties of the substrate coupled with a thin dielectric layer of PDMS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edizioni Accademiche Italiane
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 125g
• ISBN-13: 9786200838650
• ISBN-10: 6200838658
• Artikelnr.: 60634053

Autorenporträt

This work is the result of the research work carried out by the author Sofia Saoncella during her Master degree in Physics of Matter awarded in September 2019 at the University of Padova, Italy. In October of the same year she moved to Sweden to start her Ph.D in Engineering Mechanics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.