2.4. Pressure Transducer The Endevco model 8507-C2 pressure transducer (figure 10) was used for the present measurements. It is a high sensitivity piezoresistive, circular-deflection-type, pressure transducer that has a nominally flat frequency response from 0-70 kHz with a rated sensitivity of 130 mV/psi and a full scale output of 300 mV. The transducer contains an active four-arm strain gage ...

A finite-element model is presented for numerical simulation in three dimensions of acoustophoresis suspended microparticles a microchannel embedded polymer chip and driven by an attached piezoelectric transducer at MHz frequencies. In accordance with the recently introduced principle whole-system ultrasound resonances, optimal resonance mode identified that related to acoustic combined transdu...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are essential cell membrane signaling molecules and represent the most important class of drug targets. Some pathways downstream a GPCR may be responsible for adverse effects, while others mediate therapeutic efficacy. Biased ligands preferentially activate only subset all pathways. They hold great potential to become next-generation drugs with less side effe...

The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 1451 smart transducer interface standards provide the common interface and enabling technology for the connectivity of transducers to microprocessors, control and field networks, and data acquisition and instrumentation systems. The standardized Transducer electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) specified by IEEE 1451.2 allows the self-descripti...

We present the first all-Parylene microbubble pressure transducer (μBPT). The μBPT utilizes an electrolytically generated microbubble (μB), trapped in a Parylene microchamber, for pressure sensing. Pressure-induced bubble size variation is detected by electrochemical impedance measurement. Real-time hydrostatic pressure measurement with excellent sensitivity (-10.7 Ω/psi, ±0.1 psi) up to 1.8 ps...

While classical Rayleigh streaming, whose circulations are perpendicular to the transducer radiating surfaces, is wellknown, transducer-plane streaming patterns, in which vortices circulate parallel to the surface driving the streaming, have been less widely discussed. Previously, a four-quadrant transducer-plane streaming pattern has been seen experimentally and subsequently investigated throu...

The phased-array ultrasound transducer types are utilities for medical ultrasonography as well as optical imaging. However, their discontinuity characteristic limits the applications due to the artifacts contaminated into the reconstructed images. Because of the effects of the ultrasound pressure field pattern to the echo ultrasonic waves as well as the optical modulated signal, the side lobes ...

It is shown that many dynamic tests and measurement technologies base on a changing measurement equation and that internal and external disturbances may change the dynamic functional of the same object and that the reaction of measurement transducer (measurement channel) changes not only in dependence on type of loads. The reasons are given which cause methodical metering errors and make it dif...

Membrane fouling, where unwanted particles accumulate on the membrane surface and reduce its permeability, causes problems in membrane filtration processes. With ultrasonic time-domain reflectometry (UTDR) it is possible to measure the extent of membrane fouling and hence take actions to minimize it. However, the usability of UTDR is very limited to constant filtration conditions if the sonic v...