Independent trapping and manipulation of microparticles using dexterous acoustic tweezers

Charles R. P. Courtney; Christine E. M. Demore; Hongxiao Wu; Alon Grinenko; Paul D. Wilcox; Sandy Cochran; Bruce W. Drinkwater

doi:10.1063/1.4870489

Independent trapping and manipulation of microparticles using dexterous acoustic tweezers

Charles R. P. Courtney^*, Christine E. M. Demore, Hongxiao Wu, Alon Grinenko, Paul D. Wilcox, Sandy Cochran, Bruce W. Drinkwater

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Abstract

An electronically controlled acoustic tweezer was used to demonstrate two acoustic manipulation phenomena: superposition of Bessel functions to allow independent manipulation of multiple particles and the use of higher-order Bessel functions to trap particles in larger regions than is possible with first-order traps. The acoustic tweezers consist of a circular 64-element ultrasonic array operating at 2.35 MHz which generates ultrasonic pressure fields in a millimeter-scale fluid-filled chamber. The manipulation capabilities were demonstrated experimentally with 45 and 90-mu m-diameter polystyrene spheres. These capabilities bring the dexterity of acoustic tweezers substantially closer to that of optical tweezers. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

Original language	English
Article number	154103
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	104
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4870489
Publication status	Published - 14 Apr 2014

Keywords

ULTRASONIC STANDING WAVES
RADIATION FORCE
BESSEL BEAM
PARTICLES
SPHERE
CELLS

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