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Having spent hours messing around with a variety of elecrostatic simulators, from the fully-fledged Algor (link) to a limited-demo version of EStat (link), I finally have come across a saviour. Referenced in Holding Forces of Single-Particle Dielectrophoretic The software is really easy to use (perhaps too easy) and is relatively flexible for simple 2D models. MIT even has the full licences of the 2D and 3D applications on Athena, which is easily, and relatively speedily, accessible via XWindows dialup. Exporting the results is not entirely trivial: the software gives very poor print outs and one is only able to save plots as poor quality GIFs. Saving the solution-set to a datafile on a reasonable grid is also handled poorly and requires some manipulation before it can be imported successfully into MatLab; all of which I’ve yet to fully automate. But for such a small time investment, I’m sure you’ll agree that the figure above is relatively impressive, and so the software looks promising in designing decent dielectrophoretic traps. |
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