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Articles Published in Refereed Journals

  1. Chung, A.J., Erickson, D., “Engineering insect flight metabolics using pupa stage implanted microfluidics.” Submitted (2008).
  2. Huh, Y.S., Chung, A.J., Cordovez, B., Erickson , D., “Enhanced on-chip SERS based biomolecular detection using electrokinetically active microwells.” Submitted (2008)
  3. Yang, A.H.J., Moore, S.D., Schmidt, B.S, Lipson, M., Erickson, D., “Optical Manipulation of Nanoparticles in Sub-Wavelength Slot Waveguides” Submitted (2008)
  4. Goddard, J., Mandal, S., Nugen, S., Baeumner, A., Erickson, D. “Patterning of Nucleic Acid Probes in Optical Nanocavities” Submitted (2008).
  5. Tolley, M., Krishnan, M., Erickson, D., Lipson, H., “Deterministic Non-regular Structures from Regular Components using fluidic self-assembly” Submitted, (2008).
  6. Krishnan, M., Tolley, M., Lipson, H., Erickson, D., “Increased Robustness for Fluidic Self Assembly” Physics of Fluids, Accepted, (2008).
  7. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Nanoscale Optofluidic Sensor Arrays” Optics Express, 16, 1623-1631 (2008).
  8. Chung, A.J., Kim, D., Erickson, D., “Electrokinetic microfluidic devices for rapid, low power drug delivery in autonomous microsystems”, Lab on a Chip, 8, 330-338 (2008).
  9. Yang, A.H.J., Erickson D., “Stability analysis of optofluidic transport on solid-core waveguiding structures” Nanotechnology, 19, 045704 (2008).
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  10. Erickson, D., Mandal, S., Yang, A.H.J., Cordovez, B., “Nanobiosensors: Optofluidic, electrical and mechanical approaches to biomolecular detection at the nanoscale.” Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 4, 33-52 (2008).
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  11. Schmidt, B.S., Yang, A.H.J., Erickson D., Lipson, M. “Optofluidic trapping and transport on solid core waveguides within a microfluidic device” Optics Express, 15 (22), 14322-14334 (2007).
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  12. Mandal, S., Erickson D., “Optofluidic Transport in Liquid Core Waveguiding Structures” Applied Physics Letters, 90, 184103 (2007).
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  13. Cordovez, B., Psaltis, D., Erickson D., “Trapping and Storage of Particles in Electroactive Microwells.” Applied Physics Letters, 90, 024102 (2007).
  14. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Baugh, L., Yaqoob, Z., Sternberg, P., Psaltis, D., Yang C., “Optofluidic microscopy - a method for implementing a high resolution optical microscope on a chip” Lab-on-a-Chip, 6, 1274-1276 (2006).
  15. Erickson, D., Rockwood, T., Emery, T., Scherer, A., Psaltis, D., “Nanofluidic Tuning of Photonic Crystal Circuits” Optics Letters, 31, 59-61 (2006).
  16. Erickson, D., “Towards Numerical Prototyping of Labs-on-Chip, Modeling for Integrated Microfluidic Devices” Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 1, 301–318 (2005).
  17. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Venditti, R., Li, D., Krull, D., “Electrokinetically-based approach for single nucleotide polymorphism discrimination using a microfluidic device.” Analytical Chemistry, 77, 4000-4007 (2005).
  18. Erickson, D., Li, D. “Integrated Microfluidic Devices” Analytica Chimica Acta. - Special Issue on Microfluidics 507, 11-26 (2004).
  19. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Krull, D., Li, D. “An electrokinetically controlled DNA hybridization microfluidic chip enabling rapid target analysis.” Analytical Chemistry, 76, 7269-7277 (2004).
  20. Lin, F.Y.H., Sabri, M., Erickson, D., Alirezaie, J., Li, D., Sherman, P.M. “Development of a novel microfluidic immunoassay for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection” Analyst 129, 823-828 (2004).
  21. Biddiss, E., Erickson, D., Li, D. “Surface charge enhanced micro-mixing for electrokinetic flows.” Analytical Chemistry 76, 3208-3213 (2004).
  22. Zimmermann, R., Kratzmüller, T., Erickson, D., Li, D., Braun, H.-G., Werner, C. “Ionic Strength-Dependent pK-Shift in the Helix-Coil-Transition of Grafted Poly(L-glutamic acid) Layers Analysed by Electrokinetic and Ellipsometric Measurements” Langmuir 20, 2369-2374 (2004).
  23. Erickson, D., Sinton, D., Li, D. “A miniaturized high-voltage integrated power supply for portable microfluidic applications” Lab on a Chip 4, 87-90 (2004).
  24. Lui, X., Erickson, D., Li, D., Krull, U.J. “Cationic Polymer Coatings for Design of Electro-osmotic Flow and Control of DNA Adsorption.” Analytica Chimica Acta. - Special Issue on Microfluidics 507, 55-62 (2004).
  25. Erickson, D., Li, D. “Three-Dimensional Structure of Electroosmotic Flows over Heterogeneous Surfaces” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107, 12212-12220 (2003).
  26. Erickson, D., Sinton, D., Li, D. “Joule Heating and Heat Transfer in Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Systems” Lab on a Chip 3(3) 141-149 (2003).
  27. Erickson, D., Li, D. “Analysis of AC Electroosmotic Flows in a Rectangular Microchannel” Langmuir 19 5421-5430 (2003).
  28. Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. “Micro-Bubble Lensing Induced Photobleaching (m-BLIP) with Application to Microflow Visualization.” Experiments in Fluids 35 178–187 (2003).
  29. Erickson, D., Li, D., Krull, U.J. “Dynamic Modeling of DNA Hybridization Kinetics for Spatially Resolved Biochips.” Analytical Biochemistry 317 186-200 (2003).
  30. Sze, A., Erickson, D., Ren, L., Li, D. “Zeta-Potential Measurement of Flat Solid Surfaces Using Electroosmotic Flow and the Slope of Current-Time Method” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 261 402-410 (2003).
  31. Erickson, D., Li, D. "Microchannel Flow with Patch-Wise and Periodic Surface Heterogeneity." Langmuir 18 8949-8959 (2002).
  32. Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. "Photo-Injection Based Sample Design and Electroosmotic Transport in Microchannels." Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering 12 898-904, (2002).
  33. Ye, C., Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. "Electrophoretic motion of a cylindrical particle in a cylindrical microchannel." Langmuir 18 9095-9101 (2002).
  34. Erickson, D., Li, D. "Numerical Simulations of Capillary Driven Flows in Non-Uniform Cross Sectional Capillaries." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 250 422-430 (2002).
  35. Erickson, D., Li, D. "3D Numerical Simulations of a Microchannel Thermal Cycling Reactor." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 45 3759-3770 (2002).
  36. Erickson, D., Li, D. "Influence of Surface Heterogeneity on Electrokinetically Driven Microfluidic Mixing." Langmuir 18 1883-1892 (2002).
  37. Erickson, D., Lu, F., Li, D., White, T. Gau, J. "An experimental investigation into the dimension sensitive viscosity of polymer containing lubricant oils in microchannels." International Journal of Experimental Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, and Fluid Mechanics 25, 623-630 (2002).
  38. Erickson, D., Li, D., White, T. Gao. J, "High shear-rate behavior of radial hydrogenated styrene-isoprene and block ethylene-propylene copolymer solutions." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 40, 3523-3529 (2001).
  39. Erickson, D., Li, D., "Streaming Potential and Streaming Current Methods for Characterizing Heterogeneous Solid Surfaces." Journal of Colloid and Interfacial Science 237(2), 283-289 (2001).
  40. Erickson, D., Blackmore, B., Li, D. "An Energy Balance Approach to Modeling the Hydrodynamically Driven Spreading of a Liquid Drop." Colloids and Surfaces A. 182, 109-122 (2001).
  41. Erickson, D., Li, D., Werner, C. "An Improved Method for determining the Zeta-Potential and Surface Conductance." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 232, 186-197 (2000).

Invited Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Erickson, D., Yang, C., Psaltis, D., “Optofluidics Emerges from the Laboratory” Photonics Spectra 42, 74-78 (2008)
  2. Erickson, D., “Autonomous Microsystems” in 2008 Yearbook of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill (2007).
  3. Erickson, D., Li, D., “Microscale Flow and Transport Simulation for Electrokinetic and Lab-on-Chip Applications” in Biomems and Biomedical Nanotechnology, Volume IV: Biomolecular Sensing, Processing and Analysis (R. Bashir and S. Wereley Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishing (2006).

Conference Publications

* Not all invited lectures shown, for a complete listing please see on-line C.V.

  1. Moore, S,. Yang, A., Schmidt, B., Lipson, M., Erickson, D.,“Optofluidic Trapping in Exposed Mode Slot Waveguides” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2008.
  2. Mandal, S., Goddard, J., Erickson, D.,“Nanoscale Optofluidic Sensor Arrays for Dengue Virus Detection.” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2008.
  3. Schmidt, B., Manipatruni, S., Yang, A., Erickson, D., Lipson, M. “Optical Trapping Platform Based on Highly Confining Silicon Waveguiding Structures with Microfluidics.” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2008.
  4. Mandal, S., Goddard, J., Erickson, D., “Biomolecular Detection using Nanoscale Optofluidic Sensor Arrays” IEEE MEMS, Tucson, AZ, Jan 2008.
  5. Tolley, M., Baisch, A., Erickson, D., Lipson, H., “Latching Mechanisms for Self-Assembled Planar Microcomponents” IEEE MEMS, Tucson, AZ, Jan 2008.
  6. Yang, A., Erickson, D., “Waveguide Based Particle Trapping in Integrated Microfluidic Devices” AICHE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 2007.
  7. Yang, A., Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Transport – Optical Waveguides as Microfluidic “Train Tracks” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 2007.
  8. Krishnan, M., Tolley, M., Lipson, H., Erickson, D., “Directed Hierarchical Self Assembly - Active fluid mechanics at the micro and nanoscales.” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 2007.
  9. Chung, A., Kim, D., Chen, L., Akhmechet, R., Cordovez, B., Erickson, D., “Electroactive Microfluidic Devices for Control of Insect Cyborg Neuromuscular Systems.” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (?TAS), Paris, France, Oct. 2007.
  10. Mandal, S., Akhmechet, R., Chen, L., Nugen, S., Baeumner, A., Erickson, D. “Nanoscale optofluidic sensor arrays for Dengue virus detection” SPIE Optics and Photonics, Section on Optofluidics, San Diego, California, August 2007.
  11. Cordovez, B., Psaltis, D., Erickson, D. “Electroactive Nanowells for Spectrographic Fluidic Memory” SPIE Optics and Photonics, Section on Optofluidics, San Diego, California, August 2007.
  12. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Transport in Liquid Core Photonic Crystal Fibers.” 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, Maryland, May 2007.
  13. Yang, A., Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Micro and Nanofluidic Transport Using Advanced Photonic Devices.” 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, Ill., Nov. 2006.
  14. Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Emerging Technologies and Applications” 5th International Conference on Optics-photonics Design and Fabrication. Nara, Japan, December 2006. (Invited).
  15. Mandal, S., Yang, A., Erickson, D., “Micro- and Nanofluid Dynamics in Optofluidic and Nanophotonic Devices” Optical Society of America, Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, NY, October 2006. (Invited).
  16. Tolley, M., Zykov, V., Lipson, H., Erickson, D., "Directed Fluidic Self-Assembly of Microscale Tiles" Micro-Total Analysis Systems (uTAS) 2006, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2006.
  17. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., "Optical Chormatography in Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers" Micro-Total Analysis Systems (uTAS) 2006, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2006.
  18. Cordovez, B., Erickson, D., "Electroactive Nanowell Sensors for Parallel Particle Trapping and Detection" Micro-Total Analysis Systems (uTAS) 2006, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2006.
  19. Erickson, D., “Nanoscale Fluid Dynamics” Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics of Nanosystems, Chemnitz, Germany, August 2006. (Invited)
  20. Mandal, S., Yang, A.H.J., Erickson, D., Yang, A., “Optofluidically driven micro- and nanofluidic devices” SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference, August, 2006. (Invited)
  21. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Particle Transport in Liquid Core Photonic Crystal Fibers” IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical on Optofluidics, Quebec City, July 2006.
  22. Yang, A.H.J., Erickson, D., “Finite Element Analysis of Coupled Nanofludic Dynamics and Silicon-on-Insulator Particle Trapping” IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical on Optofluidics, Quebec City, July 2006.
  23. Cordovez, B., Tung, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Particle Manipulation and Characterization in Individually Addressed Nanowell Sensors” IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical on Optofluidics, Quebec City, July 2006.
  24. Cordovez, B., Erickson, D., “Electro-active Nanowell Structures for Sensing and Optofluidic Applications” CLEO, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  25. Erickson, D., Rockwood, T., Emery, T., Scherer, A., Psaltis, D., “Nanofluidic Tuning of Photonic Crystal Circuitry” CLEO, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  26. Heng, X., Cui, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C. "Portable optical microscope-on-a-chip" Photonics West, San Jose, CA, Jan 2006.
  27. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C. "Optofluidic microscope and its applications in developmental biology" Photonics West, San Jose, CA, Jan 2006.
  28. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C.,"Opto-fluidic microscope: a novel imaging device on a biochip." 2005 SPIE Optics East. Boston, MA, October 2005.
  29. Erickson, D., Rockwood, T., Emery, T., Scherer, A., Psaltis, D., “Integration of Sub-Wavelength Nanofluidics with Photonic Crystals.” 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Fl., Nov. 2005.
  30. Erickson, D., Emery, T., Rockwood, T., Scherer, A., Psaltis, D., “Nanofluidically Tunable Photonic Crystal Devices” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (mTAS) 2005, Boston, MA, Oct. 2005.
  31. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C “Optofluidic Microscope – A miniaturized microscope on a chip.” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (mTAS) 2005, Boston, MA, Oct. 2005.
  32. Erickson, D., Heng, X., Li, Z., Rockwood, T., Emery, T., Zhang, Z., Scherer, A., Yang, C., Psaltis, D., “Optofluidics” SPIE Optics and Photonics – Special Session on Optofluidics. San Diego, CA, Aug. 2005.
  33. Erickson, D., Li, B., Adleman, J., Vyawahare, S., Quake, S., Psaltis, D., "Spectographic Microfluidic Memory" 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Toronto, ON, June 2005
  34. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C., "Optofluidic Microscopy" 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Toronto, ON, June 2005
  35. Erickson, D., Adleman, J., Li, B., Pu, Y., Rockwood, T., Psaltis, D., “Optofluidics” Optical Society of America Topical Meeting on Information Photonics, June 2005.
  36. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Venditti, R. Krull, U., Li, D “Electrokinetics for control of on-chip chemical reactions” American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 2005.
  37. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang C. “Optofluidic microscopy” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, MD, May 2005.
  38. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Krull, U., Li, D “A poly(dimethylsiloxane) based DNA Hybridization Chip with On-Line Sample Dispensing, Washing and Regeneration.” ASME Congress 2004, Anaheim, CA, Nov 2004.
  39. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Krull, U., Li, D. “An Electrokinetically Controlled DNA Hybridization Chip” 2nd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Rochester, NY, June 2004.
  40. Biddiss, E., Erickson, D., Li, D. “Heterogeneous surface charge enhanced micro-mixer for electrokinetic flows” 2nd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Rochester, NY, June 2004.
  41. Erickson, D., Sinton, D., Nikolic, V., Li, D. "Heat Transfer and Electrokinetic Flow Analysis in Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Systems" ASME Congress 2003, Microelectromechanical Systems, Washington D.C., Nov 2003.
  42. Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. "Molecular Tagging in Microchannels with Micro-Bubble Lensing Induced Photobleaching (micro-BLIP)" ASME Congress 2003, Microelectromechanical Systems, Washington D.C., Nov 2003.
  43. Krull, U.J., Park, S.H., Liu, X., Zeng, J., Li, D., Erickson, D. “Genomic target identification using distributed gradients of selective single-stranded oligonucleotide probes in conjunction with microfluidics” 39th International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists (IUPAC) Congress, Ottawa, August 2003.
  44. Lin, F.Y.H., Erickson, D. Li, D., Sherman, P.M. “Development of a Novel Microfluidics-based Biochip System for the Detection of Helicobacter pylori” 103rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Washington D.C., May 2003.
  45. Lin, F.Y.H., Erickson, D. Li, D., Sherman, P.M. “Development of a novel microfluidics based biochip system for the detection of microbial pathogens” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG), Banff, Febuary 2003.
  46. Erickson, D., Li, D. "3D Numerical Simulations of Pressure Driven Flow over Electrokinetically Heterogeneous Surfaces." ELKIN 2002 Krakow, Poland, June 2002.
  47. Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. "Photo-Injection and Sample Transport in Microfluidic-Chip Applications." CSME Forum 2002 Kingston, Ontario, June 2002.
  48. Erickson, D., Li, D., and Werner, C. "Simultaneous Determination of the Zeta (z)-Potential and Surface Conductance using the Improved Slope Intercept Technique." 75th ACS Colloid and Surface Sciences Symposium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2001.
  49. Erickson, D., and Li, D., "Modeling Electrokinetic Flow through Microchannels with Heterogeneous Surface Properties." 75th ACS Colloid and Surface Sciences Symposium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2001.
  50. Wong, F.C. and Erickson, D., "Time-Temperature Independent Fracture Analysis of an Instrumented Solid Rocket Motor" 36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, AIAA Paper 2000-3324. (2000)

Refereed Technical Publications and Encyclopedia Articles

  1. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Applications” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  2. Akhmechet, R., Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Techniques for Fabrication and Integration” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  3. Yang, A.H.J., Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Optics enabling Fluidics” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  4. Erickson, D., “Electroosmotic Flow” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  5. Erickson, D., “Electroosmotic Flow over Heterogeneous Surfaces” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  6. Erickson, D., “SNP on Chip: Microfluidic Technologies for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Analysis” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  7. Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Fluidics enabling Optics” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  8. Erickson, D., and Wong, F.C., "Failure Prediction of Solid Rocket Motors on Thermal Cool-Down." DREV-TR-2000 025. 150 Pages. (2000)
  9. Erickson, D., et. al., "Development of the U of A Entry in the 1997 Propane Vehicle Challenge." 1997 Propane Vehicle Challenge, SAE SP-1360. (1998)

Patents/Inventions

  1. Erickson, D., Mandal, S., “Nanoscale Optofluidic Devices for Biomolecular Detection” Provisional Patent Filed, August 2007.
  2. Erickson, D., Mandal, S., “Optically driven separations in photonic crystal fibers” Cornell University Confidential Invention Disclosure, November 2006.
  3. Wang F., Erickson, D., Yang C., “Combined electrostatic and optical waveguide based microfluidic chip systems for bio-molecule and bio-entity detection and processing.” US. 7,385,460
  4. Erickson, D., Sinton, D. and Li, D. “A miniature, battery powered, integrated power supply for microfluidic applications with punch-through polymer chip coupling.” University of Toronto Confidential Invention Disclosure, July 2003.
  5. Erickson, D., and Li, D., "Microchannel Thermal Cycling PCR Reactor Chip." University of Toronto Confidential Invention Disclosure, April 2001.