ArticleScientific reports2016
Visualization of Surface Acoustic Waves in Thin Liquid Films.
Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Computational Image Analysis of Guided Acoustic Waves Enables Rheological Assessment of Sub-nanoliter Volumes.ACS nano · 2019Article
- Numerical emulation of Thru-Reflection-Line calibration for the de-embedding of Surface Acoustic Wave devices.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Acoustic tweezers via sub-time-of-flight regime surface acoustic waves.Science advances · 2016Article
- Spatial selective manipulation of microbubbles by tunable surface acoustic waves.Biomicrofluidics · 2016Article
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Abstract
We demonstrate that the propagation path of a surface acoustic wave (SAW), excited with an interdigitated transducer (IDT), can be visualized using a thin liquid film dispensed onto a lithium niobate (LiNbO3) substrate. The practical advantages of this visualization method are its rapid and simple implementation, with many potential applications including in characterising acoustic pumping within microfluidic channels. It also enables low-cost characterisation of IDT designs thereby allowing the determination of anisotropy and orientation of the piezoelectric substrate without the requirement for sophisticated and expensive equipment. Here, we show that the optical visibility of the sound path critically depends on the physical properties of the liquid film and identify heptane and methanol as most contrast rich solvents for visualization of SAW. We also provide a detailed theoretical description of this effect.
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