WO1998028604A2 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur mikropartikelpositionierung in feldkäfigen - Google Patents
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- C12—BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
- C12M—APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; APPARATUS FOR CULTURING MICROORGANISMS FOR PRODUCING BIOMASS, FOR GROWING CELLS OR FOR OBTAINING FERMENTATION OR METABOLIC PRODUCTS, i.e. BIOREACTORS OR FERMENTERS
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- the invention relates to a method for controlling the position or movement of objects in field cages and a device for performing the method.
- a known technique for holding biological cells consists in growing the cells on a solid substrate, which can then be e.g. can be set in relation to a measuring device.
- the disadvantage of this technique is the formation of mechanical contact with the substrate surface and the generally difficult separation of the connection e.g. after taking a measurement.
- this technique is limited to holding objects and is not suitable for guiding along predetermined paths.
- the held particle is vibrated in the desired position by means of sound (in particular ultrasound) or by means of periodic solution movements, so that a certain periodic movement takes place at the location of the desired position.
- the correspondingly modulated measurement signal has an improved signal-to-noise behavior.
- this vibration technique has the following disadvantages.
- the forces for the formation of the vibration act indirectly on the held particle via the surrounding liquid. This moves not only the particle but also the surrounding fluid, which reduces the reproducibility of particle positioning.
- undesirable and difficult to control rotary movements can occur with this indirect force. Certain applications in which ambient fluid movement is undesirable cannot be realized.
- the particle held on mechanical stress occurs, which is particularly problematic with biological living objects.
- the invention is based on the idea of departing from the use of the forces mediated indirectly via the liquid movement when positioning with vibration superimposition or other movement controls and instead moving the object aperiodically or periodically under the action of forces which act directly on the held object, but not on the surrounding liquid (suspension, solution) act.
- electrical potentials are superimposed on electrodes of a multi-electrode arrangement to form an open or closed field cage with control potentials such that the position of the field minimum in which the respective object is located changes with respect to the desired object position.
- the desired object position can either be a specific location within a closed field cage or a path within an open field cage (channel structure or the like).
- a periodic change in position means that the particle being held is periodically on a path around the desired, predetermined object position is performed.
- the shape of this superimposed movement path can be selected as desired and can include an oscillatory movement with respect to one, two or three spatial axes, circular, elliptical, essentially rectangular or even more complicated paths.
- the time pattern of the spatially periodic movement can itself have a periodic modulation.
- An aperiodic change in position means that the held particle is guided away from a predetermined object position on a certain path.
- the movement of the object along the desired path can take place either with a suitably selected control of the electrodes with basic potentials and / or by a liquid flow.
- a device has an electrode arrangement which can be controlled with a combination of HF generators and a switching means.
- the switching means is set up to superimpose the potential (so-called basic potential) of one or more electrodes with a control potential, so that the amplitude, the frequency and / or the phase position of the resulting total potential changes.
- the objects are positioned or moved without mechanical contact.
- the objects are not subjected to any disturbing mechanical stress, so that in particular living biological cells or the like are not damaged.
- customary optical measurement methods avoiding interference Problems usable.
- the movement of the objects around the desired location or the desired path can be designed to be complex in a reproducible manner, deviating from harmonic oscillation processes.
- the superimposed movement of the objects can be controlled or programmed in a predetermined manner. There is a clear connection between the design of the control potential and the object movements caused, so that no feedback control or observation of the moving object is required for regulation.
- the invention can be used with any electrode arrangement for forming field cages, regardless of the specific electrode shape or arrangement.
- Methods and devices according to the invention can preferably be used for correlation spectroscopy, in particular for the detection of fluorescent molecules on the surface of submicron or micrometer particles and / or cells, or for pharmacological, medical-diagnostic and / or evolutionary biotechnological applications.
- the method of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (WO 94/16313) and other, in particular confocal fluorescence techniques, as proposed in published patent application WO 96/13744 and European patent application 96116373.0, can be used as the detection method.
- the latter application proposes a method for analyzing samples by repeatedly measuring the number of photons per defined time interval of electromagnetic radiation, in particular light, which is emitted, scattered and / or reflected by the particles in the sample, and determining the distribution of the Number of photons in the respective time intervals, the distribution of the molecular brightness of the particles being determined from the distribution of the number of photons.
- Figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of a three-dimensional field cage with a block diagram of a control circuit according to an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic perspective view of an open field cage to illustrate particle paths modified according to the invention.
- Fig. 3 is a schematic perspective view of an electrode arrangement for two adjacent, open field cages.
- electrode arrangements are used, as are known for the formation of field cages, in particular from microsystem technology, and are preferably produced using methods of semiconductor technology.
- the electrodes are formed on a chip surface with characteristic sizes in the nm to ⁇ m range.
- Three-dimensional electrode arrangements can consist of two planar, two-dimensional arrangements, which are joined together using structured spacer means to form channels, reservoirs or other flowable spaces.
- Microelectrodes cross-sectional dimension 50 nm to a few micrometers, length depending on the application
- electrical Basic potentials are applied that a certain electric field is formed in the interior formed between the microelectrodes.
- the microsystem in particular the interior, is filled or flowed through with the carrier liquid. If there is a suspended particle in the carrier liquid (object to be held or guided), this is polarized under the effect of the electric field. If the electrodes are controlled with high-frequency signals (MHz range) or if the external conductivity (of the carrier liquid) is higher than the average internal conductivity of the particle or particles, these are pressed away from the electrodes into the interior to a field minimum.
- the particles are kept floating in the carrier liquid (closed field cage). If the electrodes are arranged and controlled in such a way that a potential wall is only formed in relation to one spatial direction, but movement of the particles is possible in another spatial direction, in particular under the action of a liquid flow, the particle in the field cage can move into a certain direction Move direction (open field cage).
- the basic potentials of the electrodes are chosen so that the particle is at a predetermined position in the field cage.
- This predetermined position is the location of the field minimum in the closed field cage or the path (trajectory) in the open field cage.
- the actual field minimum is shifted away from the predetermined position in space by periodic and orderly superposition of the basic potentials with control potentials (or changing the basic potentials according to the control potentials). This shift can take place with characteristic times of ⁇ s to min.
- the held particles follow the field minimum and thus move on predeterminable trajectories in relation to the desired position or trajectory.
- the superimposed movement can be a simple vibration on a spatial axis or a more complex path in space.
- the invention allows movements in all directions. According to the invention, it is in particular possible to compensate for random or undesirable rotational movements of the particle by applying compensation potentials.
- the compensation potentials suitably comprise rotating or moving high-frequency electrical fields.
- the electrodes are controlled with HF generators to provide the basic potential.
- the output signals of the generators are periodically or aperiodically (in particular in response to an actuation signal that indicates a specific object position) amplitude-damped, phase-shifted and / or frequency-changed. These respective changes determine the respective control potential under whose effect the superimposed movement of the held particles takes place.
- the control potentials can be modulated in relation to their amplitude, phase or frequency. Combinations of such modulations are also possible.
- the electrodes are controlled via a fast switching means, in particular a multiplexer arrangement.
- the multiplexer arrangement is preferably computer-controlled and can be regulated according to predefinable programs.
- FIG. 1 shows an example of a quadrupole arrangement in which eight electrodes 11a-11d, 12a-12d are arranged in the form of a cube.
- an electrical field with a field minimum in the center of gravity of the cube is formed in a known manner.
- the boundaries of the field cage are shown schematically by solid lines between the electrodes.
- a carrier liquid with a suspending dielectric particle 13 is located in the interior of the electrode arrangement (eg a latex particle of a few micrometers in diameter or a biological cell). The dielectric particle is polarized so that negative influence charges point to the next negative electrode (and vice versa). This affects an octupole on the particle and pushes the particle into the field minimum.
- the right part of FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a control circuit for the electrodes.
- the control circuit comprises at least one RF generator which is connected to a multiplexer module 16 which acts as a fast switching means.
- two RF generators 14a, 14b are provided.
- the number of RF generators is selected depending on the application, depending on whether 2, 3, 4 or more phase- or frequency-shifted signals are to be used for electrode control.
- a calibration element 17 is provided, which cooperates with the multiplexer module to quickly change the amplitude, the frequency and / or the phase position of each potential.
- the multiplexer module 16 and the calibration element 17 are preferably controllable with a computer or can be preset in a predetermined manner.
- the signals of the HF generators 14a, 14b are split up with the multiplexer module and the calibration element 17 in the manner explained below with reference to Table 1 in such a way that a field cage is formed between the electrodes 11a-11d, 12a-12d.
- Table 1 shows the control of the electrodes of the octupole with basic potentials of a certain amplitude (in the range from 0.1 V to 100 V) and a certain frequency (MHz range).
- the basic potentials of the individual electrodes differ by the mutual phase position.
- a two-phase alternating field and a four-phase rotating field are formed, the relative phase position essentially corresponding to the values shown in Table 1.
- the field minimum generated with an electrode control according to Table 1 in the center of gravity of the field cage is moved according to the invention in such a way that a particle located in the field minimum follows, for example, the movement paths (a) or (b) (see FIG. 1).
- the trajectory (a) is a vibration in one spatial direction (two movements per period).
- the movement path (b) is a complex, star-shaped path in the field cage (eight movement sequences per period).
- any other trajectories can also be implemented.
- the top 6 lines of Table 2 relate to the type of movement (a) shown in FIG. 1.
- Two lines each relate to the two opposite movement sequences 1, 2 of the vibration, the three control options for influencing the amplitudes, frequencies or phase positions being specified.
- the phase i, V ⁇ 2 ⁇ he kei third possibility, (rows 5, 6) are selected arbitrarily to form a solid difference value.
- Lines 1 and 2 or 3 and 4 each show sample values.
- the lower 8 lines of Table 2 relate to the chronological sequence of the 8 movement sequences for the formation of the star-shaped movement path (b) with an amplitude-related design of the control potentials. Again, the amplitude values are only given as examples.
- control potentials are selected over time such that a field cage is formed with a potential wall reduced in one spatial direction, the spatial direction of this field cage weakening periodically over time changed in relation to the desired object position or path.
- the field minimum in the field cage according to FIG. 1 is moved by controlling the electrode arrangement with potentials which are formed by superimposing the basic potentials according to Table 1 and control potentials according to Table 2.
- the trapped particle will follow this movement as it strives to take a position of minimal energy.
- control computer 15 shown in FIG. 1 can be replaced by a multivibrator, which alternately halves the amplitudes of the upper electrode level 12 and the lower electrode level 11. In this case, the sequence of movements (a) is achieved.
- control potentials signal modulations according to Table 2
- the path diameters or deflections achieved by the field minimum shift can be in the range from 50 nm to a few ⁇ m. Deviating from the lane forms (a) and (b), more complicated lane forms can be formed with the appropriate design of the tax potential.
- FIG. 2 shows an example of an open field cage which is formed from a linear sequence of a plurality of quadrupoles 21a-21d, 22a-22d, 23a-23d, 24a-24d.
- the electrode arrangement forms a channel in which a Liquid flow 26 a particle 25 is guided.
- the particle paths (a) and (b) shown by way of example can be specified with suitable control of the electrodes.
- Table 3 shows the electrode control for the thick solid trajectory (a).
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- the electrodes are controlled in such a way that the field cage in the region of the electrodes 21a-d has a weakening in the direction of the plane which is formed by the electrodes 21a and 21b.
- the potential of the latter electrodes is reduced for this.
- the movement is reversed by weakening the field cage on the opposite side (reducing the potentials at the electrodes 22c, d). The rest of the process is done accordingly.
- the desired movement can be achieved solely by periodically repeating the signal sequences given in Table 3.
- the repetition is preferably carried out at a frequency, the reciprocal of which is approximately 1/10 of the time required for the particle to pass through a quadupole arrangement or greater.
- An electrode arrangement according to FIG. 3 is set up for coupling or decoupling particles from a particle stream.
- the electrodes 31-36 which can be controlled individually or in groups, are arranged in several rows and a free suspension can flow through them. They can be flowed through in any direction, preferably parallel to the rows of electrodes.
- control trajectories (a) and (b) can be achieved with control protocols that are designed analogously to the examples explained above. Particles can be separated and sorted using a multi-channel connection.
- Tab. 1 Phase position ⁇ when controlling the 8 electrodes according to FIG. 1 with basic potentials to form a closed field cage with a field minimum (basic setting)
- Tab. 2 Control of the electrodes according to FIG. 1 to generate the movement paths (a) and (b)
- Tab. 3 Phase position when controlling the eight electrodes according to FIG. 1 with basic potentials to form a closed field cage with a field minimum (basic setting)
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| US09/319,172 US6440285B1 (en) | 1996-12-20 | 1997-12-12 | Method and device for micro particles positioning in field cages |
| AT97953804T ATE224047T1 (de) | 1996-12-20 | 1997-12-12 | Verfahren und vorrichtung zur mikropartikelpositionierung in feldkäfigen |
| EP97953804A EP1025428B1 (de) | 1996-12-20 | 1997-12-12 | Verfahren und vorrichtung zur mikropartikelpositionierung in feldkäfigen |
| JP52832298A JP4014647B2 (ja) | 1996-12-20 | 1997-12-12 | フィールドケージ中の微粒子の位置を決定する方法および装置 |
| DE59708216T DE59708216D1 (de) | 1996-12-20 | 1997-12-12 | Verfahren und vorrichtung zur mikropartikelpositionierung in feldkäfigen |
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