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Dielectrophoresis affects the surface wettability by applying a non-uniform electric field to dipoles inside dielectric liquid, achieving adjustable droplet contact angle and overcoming the saturation limitation of contact angle caused by the electrowettability effect. However, it is difficult to realize useful three-dimensional tunable optical devices because most of the driving electrodes need to be patterned. In this work, a model of double flexible electrodes simulating planar interdigitated pattern electrodes is proposed based on the dielectrophoresis. Double flexible electrodes, which are wrapped with an insulating dielectric layer and are not conductive to each other are arranged at close intervals and wound along the plane substrate to form a two-dimensional planar line wall. A hydrophobic layer is used to fill the gap and increase the initial contact angle. Ultimately, the “droplet-interdigitated planar line wall” dielectrophoresis driven-droplet model is formed after the dielectric droplets have been deposited on the line wall surface. Firstly, considering the influence of penetration depth and electrode gap area, Young’s equation is theoretically modified to adapt to this model. Then, the finite element algorithm simulation is used to used to comparatively analyze the potential distribution of this model and the planar interdigitated pattern electrode model. The field strength distributions of the electrodes with different wire diameters and insulating layer thickness values are analyzed. It can be found that with the increase of the diameter of the electrode wire and the thickness of the insulating layer, the morphology of the model changes from the tip electrode into the planar electrode, the surface field strength attenuates exponentially and the peak value decreases. This shows that the structure of this electrode in this model is superior to that of the planar electrode. After that, the contact angle of the model is measured experimentally in a range of 58°－90° under 0–250 Vrms voltage, which is in line with the theoretical expectation. At the same time, neither obvious contact angle lag nor saturation is observed in the experiment. Finally, the new electrophoretic driving droplet model constructed in this paper transforms the dielectric electrophoretic driving mode from a two-dimensional planar electrode to a one-dimensional flexible linear electrode. Because of its flexibility and plasticity, it is convenient to form a three-dimensional cavity and can be applied to more complex device structures.
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Keywords:
- dielectrophoresis /
- simulated interdigitated patterned electrodes /
- flexible electrodes /
- contact angle
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图 1 基于双柔性线性电极构造的“液滴-叉指平面线墙”模型 (a)双柔性电极线墙排布; (b)疏水层涂覆; (c) “液滴-叉指平面线墙”模型
Figure 1. The “droplet-interdigitated planar line wall” model based on double flexible linear electrodes: (a) Double flexible electrode wire wall arrangement; (b) coating hydrophobic layer; (c) the “droplet-interdigitated planar line wall” model.
图 2 不同形状电极仿真结果 (a)柔性电极线墙; (b)平面图案叉指电极; (c)柔性电极线墙电场模仿真结果
Figure 2. Simulation results of electrodes with different shapes: (a) Flexible electrode wire wall; (b) planar pattern interdigitated electrodes; (c) simulation results of electric field mode of flexible electrode wire wall.
图 3 电极表面0—0.5 mm处电场模 (a) 不同线径下电极表面电场模; (b) 不同绝缘层厚度下电极表面电场模
Figure 3. Electric field modes at 0–0.5 mm height on the electrode surface: (a) Electrode surface electric field modes with different wire diameters; (b) electrode surface electric field modes with different insulating layer thickness.
图 4 液滴形貌变化示意图 (a), (b)分别为初始状态及250 Vrms电压下液滴俯视图; (c), (d)分别为电压升高和下降时液滴侧视形貌
Figure 4. Schematic diagram of droplet morphology changes: (a), (b) Vertical view of droplet in initial state and 250 Vrms voltage respectively; (c), (d) side view of droplet during voltage rise and fall.
图 5 液滴接触角及余弦差值关系图 (a)液滴前进及后退接触角与理论接触角对比; (b)接触角余弦差值拟合
Figure 5. Schematic diagram of droplet contact angle and cosine difference diagram: (a) The comparison between the forward and backward contact angle of the droplet and the theoretical contact angle; (b) the fitting of the contact angle cosine difference.
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[1] McHale G, Brown, C V, Newton M I, Wells G G, Sampara N 2011 Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 186101
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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