Piezoelectric MEMS—Evolution from sensing technology to diversified applications in the 5G/Internet of Things (IoT) era

X Le, Q Shi, P Vachon, EJ Ng… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The rapid development of the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G) and Internet of Things
(IoT) is inseparable from a large number of miniature, low-cost, and low-power sensors and …

Unconventional acoustic approaches for localized and designed micromanipulation

K Kolesnik, M Xu, PVS Lee, V Rajagopal, DJ Collins - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic fields are ideal for micromanipulation, being biocompatible and with force gradients
approaching the scale of single cells. They have accordingly found use in a variety of …

Single-particle photoacoustic vibrational spectroscopy using optical microresonators

SJ Tang, M Zhang, J Sun, JW Meng, X **ong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vibrational spectroscopy is a ubiquitous technology that derives the species, constituents
and morphology of an object from its natural vibrations. However, natural vibrations of …

Deterministic sorting of submicrometer particles and extracellular vesicles using a combined electric and acoustic field

M Tayebi, D Yang, DJ Collins, Y Ai - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sorting of extracellular vesicles has important applications in early stage diagnostics.
Current exosome isolation techniques, however, suffer from being costly, having long …

3D acoustofluidics via sub‐wavelength micro‐resonators

WS Harley, K Kolesnik, M Xu, DE Heath… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Precise acoustic micromanipulation is emerging as an important tool in biomedical research,
where acoustic forces have the advantage of being contact‐free, label‐free, and …

Acoustoelectronic nanotweezers enable dynamic and large-scale control of nanomaterials

P Zhang, J Rufo, C Chen, J **a, Z Tian, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to precisely manipulate nano-objects on a large scale can enable the fabrication
of materials and devices with tunable optical, electromagnetic, and mechanical properties …

On-demand transdermal drug delivery platform based on wearable acoustic microneedle array

Q Wu, C Pan, P Shi, L Zou, S Huang, N Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Both acute and chronic diseases require on-demand and convenient drug delivery,
particularly for life-threatening acute conditions. Although emerging microneedle arrays …

Smart acoustic 3D cell construct assembly with high-resolution

X Hu, J Zheng, Q Hu, L Liang, D Yang, Y Cheng… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise and flexible three-dimensional (3D) cell construct assembly using external forces or
fields can produce micro-scale cellular architectures with intercellular connections, which is …

A deep learning approach for designed diffraction-based acoustic patterning in microchannels

SJ Raymond, DJ Collins, R O'Rorke, M Tayebi, Y Ai… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Acoustic waves can be used to accurately position cells and particles and are appropriate
for this activity owing to their biocompatibility and ability to generate microscale force …

Programmable Acoustic Holography using Medium‐Sound‐Speed Modulation

M Xu, J Wang, WS Harley, PVS Lee… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic holography offers the ability to generate designed acoustic fields to manipulate
microscale objects. However, the static nature or large aperture sizes of 3D printed acoustic …