Acoustofluidics 17: Theory and applications of surface acoustic wave devices for particle manipulation

Applications of Surface Acoustic and Shallow Bulk Acoustic Wave Devices

Applications of surface acoustic wave (SA W) and shallow bulk acoustic wave (SBA W) devices are reviewed. SA W-device coverage includes delay lines and filters operating at selected frequencies in the range from about 10 MHz to 11 GHz, modeling with singlecrystal piezoelectrics and layered structures, resonators and lowloss filters, comb filters and multiplexers, antenna duplexers, harmonic dev...

Acoustofluidics 14: Applications of acoustic streaming in microfluidic devices.

In part 14 of the tutorial series "Acoustofluidics--exploiting ultrasonic standing wave forces and acoustic streaming in microfluidic systems for cell and particle manipulation", we provide a qualitative description of acoustic streaming and review its applications in lab-on-a-chip devices. The paper covers boundary layer driven streaming, including Schlichting and Rayleigh streaming, Eckart st...

Surface acoustic wave induced particle manipulation in a PDMS channel--principle concepts for continuous flow applications.

A device for acoustic particle manipulation in the 40 MHz range for continuous-flow operation in a 50 μm wide PDMS channel has been evaluated. Unidirectional interdigital transducers on a Y-cut Z-propagation lithium nixobate wafer were used to excite a surface acoustic wave that generated an acoustic standing wave inside the microfluidic channel. It was shown that particle alignment nodes with ...

Forthcoming Lab on a Chip tutorial series on acoustofluidics: acoustofluidics-exploiting ultrasonic standing wave forces and acoustic streaming in microfluidic systems for cell and particle manipulation.

Acoustic Devices for Particle and Cell Manipulation and Sensing

An emerging demand for the precise manipulation of cells and particles for applications in cell biology and analytical chemistry has driven rapid development of ultrasonic manipulation technology. Compared to the other manipulation technologies, such as magnetic tweezing, dielectrophoresis and optical tweezing, ultrasonic manipulation has shown potential in a variety of applications, with its a...