Surface acoustic waves as high‐frequency sound transducers in gases

1994 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 1151-1154
Author(s):  
Richard Stanzel ◽  
Manfred von Schickfus
Author(s):  
Ghulam Destgeer ◽  
Anas Alazzam ◽  
Hyung Jin Sung

In this study, we have demonstrated a particle separation device taking advantage of the ultra-high frequency sound waves. The sound waves, in the form of surface acoustic waves, are produced by an acoustofluidic platform build on top of a piezoelectric substrate bonded to a microfluidic channel. The particles’ mixture, pumped through the microchannel, is focused using a sheath fluid. A travelling surface acoustic wave (TSAW), propagating normal to the flow, interacts with the particles and deflect them from their original path to induce size-based separation in a continuous flow. We initially started the experiment with 40 MHz TSAWs for deflecting 10 μm diameter polystyrene particles but failed. However, larger diameter particles (∼ 30 μm) were successfully deflected from their streamlines and separated from the smaller particles (∼ 10 μm) using TSAWs with 40 MHz frequency. The separation of smaller diameter particles (3, 5 and 7 μm) was also achieved using an order of magnitude higher-frequency (∼ 133 MHz) TSAWs.


2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric I. Thorsos ◽  
Kevin L. Williams ◽  
Darrell R. Jackson ◽  
Dajun Tang

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Richardson ◽  
Kevin Briggs ◽  
Dawn Lavoie ◽  
Dale Bibee

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric I. Thorsos ◽  
Kevin L. Williams ◽  
Dajun Tang ◽  
Steven G. Kargl

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