Nebulization of water/glycerol droplets generated by ZnO/Si surface acoustic wave devices

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 273-282

  Guo, Y J ^a,b   Dennison, A P ^c   Li, Y ^c   Luo, J ^d   Zu, X T ^a   Mackay, C L ^c   Langridge Smith, P ^c   Walton, A J ^c   Fu, Y Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microfluidics; Nebulization; Surface acoustic wave; ZnO

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTICS; DROP BREAKUP; LIQUIDS; MICROFLUIDICS; SUBSTRATES; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; ZINC OXIDE;

GLYCEROL CONCENTRATION; GLYCOL CONCENTRATION; NEBULIZATION; SATELLITE DROPLETS; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; WATER/GLYCEROL MIXTURES; ZNO;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 84941187153     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-014-1501-0     Document Type: Article

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