Capillary Forces in Micro-Fluidic Self-Assembly

Parallel self-assembly in the fluidic phase is a promising al-ternative technique to conventional pick-and-place assembly. In this work the hydrophobic-hydrophilic material system between binding sites for microparts is simulated with re-spect to alignment precision. The results are compared with experimental findings and allow predictions for the optimiza-tion of the fluidic self assembly technique