Self-aligned interdigitated transducers for acoustofluidics

Micromachines

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Ma, Zhichao ^a   Teo, Adrian J T ^b   Tan, Say Hwa ^b   Ai, Ye ^a   Nguyen, Nam Trung ^b  

^a SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustofluidics; Interdigitated transducers; Microfluidics; Surface acoustic wave

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; CLEAN ROOMS; FABRICATION; FLUIDIC DEVICES;

ACOUSTOFLUIDICS; DROPLET GENERATION; INTER-DIGITATED TRANSDUCERS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; PARTICLE SEPARATION; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE (SAW); SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 85007326431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2072666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/mi7120216     Document Type: Article

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