Subpicoliter droplet generation based on a nozzle-free acoustic transducer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Lee, Chuang Yuan ^a   Pang, Wei ^b   Yu, Hongyu ^c   Kim, Eun Sok ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; DEPOSITS; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; EJECTORS (PUMPS); HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LEAD; OPTICAL DESIGN; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; THICK FILMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVELENGTH; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); DROPLET GENERATION; DROPLET SIZES; HARMONIC FREQUENCIES; HIGH-TEMPERATURE PROCESSING; LIQUID DROPLETS; PIEZOELECTRIC LEAD-ZIRCONATE-TITANATE (PZT); PZT THIN FILMS; SUBSTRATE THICKNESSES;

FLUID MECHANICS;

EID: 48249134430     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2958342     Document Type: Article

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