Feifei Li

TL;DR: The dynamic process of the microdroplet splitting and the simulation of the electrostatic interaction inside the sandwich gap show that the combination of two anti-symmetrical substrates are capable to provide a sufficient dielectrophoretic force and to reduce the unbalance of the drag forces for a stable and efficient splitting of themicrodroplet.

TL;DR: The reported visible-light-assisted water condensation, employing the inexpensive, safe-for-cell visible laser beam, is quite convenient for the controllable generation of various biological microdroplets, and thus it is promising for the microfluidic functionality integration of LN-based biological lab-on-chips.

TL;DR: It is found that the y-surface is much more fragile than the +c-surface and that micro-cracks are easily generated during the PAPE process and the range and number of these micro-Cracks can be controlled by the experimental parameters of the Pape process.

TL;DR: This work develops on lithium niobate crystals a photorefractive direct-laser-writing approach, in which in one beam both direct writing and phase-delay probing functionalities to extract the in situ information of the refractive index or the electrostatic field.