Acoustic levitation in mid-air: Recent advances, challenges, and future perspectives

MAB Andrade, A Marzo, JC Adamowski - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Mid-air acoustic levitation is becoming a powerful tool to suspend and manipulate millimetric
objects. Because of its unique characteristics, acoustic levitation is suitable to trap a wide …

Viscoelasticity in 3D Cell Culture and Regenerative Medicine: Measurement Techniques and Biological Relevance

P Eliahoo, H Setayesh, T Hoffman, Y Wu, S Li… - ACS Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The field of mechanobiology is gaining prominence due to recent findings that show cells
sense and respond to the mechanical properties of their environment through a process …

High-speed acoustic holography with arbitrary scattering objects

R Hirayama, G Christopoulos, D Martinez Plasencia… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Recent advances in high-speed acoustic holography have enabled levitation-based
volumetric displays with tactile and audio sensations. However, current approaches do not …

Generating airborne ultrasonic amplitude patterns using an open hardware phased array

R Morales, I Ezcurdia, J Irisarri, MAB Andrade… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Holographic methods from optics can be adapted to acoustics for enabling novel
applications in particle manipulation or patterning by generating dynamic custom-tailored …

Acoustic hologram optimisation using automatic differentiation

T Fushimi, K Yamamoto, Y Ochiai - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Acoustic holograms are the keystone of modern acoustics. They encode three-dimensional
acoustic fields in two dimensions, and their quality determines the performance of acoustic …

Fluid Driven Membrane Actuation for Reconfigurable Acoustic Manipulation

C Choi, J Hardwick, S Bansal… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic metamaterials based on out‐of‐plane actuation can flexibly reconfigure arrayed
unit cells on demand, to shape sound fields for applications such as beam formation or …

[HTML][HTML] Sound energy enhancement via impedance-matched anisotropic metamaterial

X Jia, M Yan, M Hong - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Sound energy enhancement realized by electronic circuit designs plays a vital part in many
fields, including acoustic communication, medical imaging, acoustic positioning and sound …

Acoustic sorting of airborne particles by a phononic crystal waveguide

N Korozlu, A Bicer, D Sayarcan, OA Kaya, A Cicek - Ultrasonics, 2022 - Elsevier
A two-dimensional phononic crystal linear defect waveguide is utilized for size-based sorting
of millimeter-sized solid particles in the air through acoustic radiation force. The waveguide …

On-demand harmonic wave suppression in non-Hermitian space-time-periodic phased arrays

R Adlakha, M Nouh - Smart Materials and Structures, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Phased arrays have been a cornerstone of non-destructive evaluation, sonar
communications, and medical imaging for years. Conventional arrays work by imparting a …

Acoustic radiation force and radiation torque beyond particles: Effects of nonspherical shape and Willis coupling

S Sepehrirahnama, S Oberst, YK Chiang, D Powell - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Acoustophoresis mainly deals with the manipulation of subwavelength scatterers in an
incident acoustic field. The geometric details of manipulated particles are often neglected by …