User experience and mid-air haptics: Applications, methods, and challenges

O Georgiou, W Frier, O Schneider - Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics for …, 2022 - Springer
Mid-air haptic feedback presents exciting new opportunities for useful and delightful
interactive systems. However, with these opportunities come several design challenges that …

LeviPrint: Contactless Fabrication using Full Acoustic Trap** of Elongated Parts.

I Ezcurdia, R Morales, MAB Andrade… - ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
LeviPrint is a system for assembling objects in a contactless manner using acoustic
levitation. We explore a set of optimum acoustic fields that enables full trap** in position …

Air-coupled ultrasonic spiral phased array for high-precision beamforming and imaging

G Allevato, M Rutsch, J Hinrichs… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sparse spiral phased arrays are advantageous for many emerging air-coupled ultrasonic
applications, since grating lobes are prevented without being constrained to the half …

OptiTrap: Optimal trap trajectories for acoustic levitation displays

V Paneva, A Fleig, DM Plasencia… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Acoustic levitation has recently demonstrated the ability to create volumetric content by
trap** and quickly moving particles along reference paths to reveal shapes in mid-air …

Amplitude‐Phase Dual‐Channel Encrypted Acoustic Meta‐Holograms

H Zeng, Z He, Y Wu, S Gao, F Mao… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Encrypted acoustic meta‐holograms have potential applications in confidential acoustic
information communication, noise control, acoustic cloaking, acoustic illusion, etc …

OpenMPD: A low-level presentation engine for Multimodal Particle-based Displays

R Montano-Murillo, R Hirayama… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Phased arrays of transducers have been quickly evolving in terms of software and hardware
with applications in haptics (acoustic vibrations), display (levitation), and audio. Most …

Microfluidic platform using focused ultrasound passing through hydrophobic meshes with jump availability

Y Koroyasu, TV Nguyen, S Sasaguri, A Marzo… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Applications in chemistry, biology, medicine, and engineering require the large-scale
manipulation of a wide range of chemicals, samples, and specimens. To achieve maximum …

Contactless printing of food micro-particles controlled by ultrasound

Z Li, W He, X Huang, X Hu, H Chen, Y Zhang… - Journal of Food …, 2025 - Elsevier
Traditional food 3D printing technology, which primarily relies on mechanical control, often
faces challenges such as low resolution, stringent material requirements, limited flexibility …

Inverse‐Design Methodology for Generating Twisted Ultrasonic Motor in Free Space

C Zhang, J He, X Jiang, D Ta - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A new level of freedom is made possible by orbital angular momentum (OAM), which can be
used to create twisted ultrasonic motors for particle manipulation and control. For steady and …

Enhancing the quality of amplitude patterns using time-multiplexed virtual acoustic fields

S Elizondo, I Ezcurdia, J Goñi, M Galar… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrasonic fields can push and levitate particles, heat up materials, induce contactless tactile
stimuli, or affect the blood-brain barrier. Current phased-arrays can create dynamic …