Application of Slanted Finger Interdigital Transducer to Control Micro Droplets
Date Issued
2004
Date
2004
Author(s)
Chang, I-Hsiang
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Using Surface acoustic wave (SAW) to drive droplets is developed recently. SAW could induce an acoustic streaming inside a droplet and move it along the propagation direction. However, the SAW amplitudes radiated from uniform IDT are equivalent along the aperture, and they move the droplets within the same delay line simultaneously. This phenomenon is not suitable for a multi-channel microfluidic chip. For this reason, SFIT is used to replace uniform IDT. The SAW amplitude profile excited by SFIT is not uniform along the aperture, and the position of the maximum amplitude can be changed by adjusting the input frequency. Therefore, the droplets can be driven individually by varying the frequency. In addition, the frequency response can be used to detect the position of the droplet because the transmitted SAW intensity is radiated into the liquid.
In this thesis, because hydrophobic film and acoustic streaming dominate the performance of driving droplets, we introduce these mechanisms first. And then, we use the coupling-of-modes (COM) model to simulate the amplitude profile and the frequency response of SFIT. According to the simulation, we can design optimum SFIT to detect and move the droplets. The frequency responses of the experiments for detecting droplets show a good agreement with the simulated results. Furthermore, the droplets are also driven respectively at different frequency by SFIT. Therefore, using SFITs to construct a multi-channel microfluidic chip is proven feasible.
Subjects
表面聲波
多通道微流體晶片
耦合模型理論
相對振幅分佈
斜交指叉式表面聲波元件
C18疏水性薄膜
聲射流
接觸角
COM model
OTS
Multi-channel microfluidic chip
Amplitude profile
Contact angle
SAW
SFIT
Acoustic streaming
Type
thesis