Surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors: Physics, materials, and applications

D Mandal, S Banerjee - Sensors, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are the guided waves that propagate along the top surface
of a material with wave vectors orthogonal to the normal direction to the surface. Based on …

A review of microwave synthesis of zinc oxide nanomaterials: Reactants, process parameters and morphologies

J Wojnarowicz, T Chudoba, W Lojkowski - Nanomaterials, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a multifunctional material due to its exceptional physicochemical
properties and broad usefulness. The special properties resulting from the reduction of the …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in piezoelectric thin films for acoustic biosensors, acoustofluidics and lab-on-chip applications

YQ Fu, JK Luo, NT Nguyen, AJ Walton… - Progress in Materials …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Recently, piezoelectric thin films including zinc oxide (ZnO) and aluminium nitride (AlN)
have found a broad range of lab-on-chip applications such as biosensing, particle/cell …

Relaxor-based ferroelectric single crystals: Growth, domain engineering, characterization and applications

E Sun, W Cao - Progress in materials science, 2014‏ - Elsevier
In the past decade, domain engineered relaxor-PT ferroelectric single crystals, including (1−
x) Pb (Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3) O 3–xPbTiO 3 (PMN–PT),(1− x) Pb (Zn 1/3 Nb 2/3) O 3–xPbTiO 3 (PZN …

Surface acoustic wave microfluidics

LY Yeo, JR Friend - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
Fluid manipulations at the microscale and beyond are powerfully enabled through the use of
10–1,000-MHz acoustic waves. A superior alternative in many cases to other microfluidic …

Piezoelectric MEMS based acoustic sensors: A review

WR Ali, M Prasad - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2020‏ - Elsevier
This paper discusses piezoelectric acoustic devices based on widely used piezoelectric
materials. Commonly used piezoelectric thin film deposition techniques and the influence of …

Recent developments on ZnO films for acoustic wave based bio-sensing and microfluidic applications: a review

YQ Fu, JK Luo, XY Du, AJ Flewitt, Y Li, GH Markx… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Recent developments on the preparation and application of ZnO films for acoustic wave-
based microfluidics and biosensors are reviewed in this paper. High quality and strongly …

On Rayleigh waves in a piezoelectric semiconductor thin film over an elastic half-space

R Tian, G Nie, J Liu, E Pan, Y Wang - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Some piezoelectric materials, such as zinc oxide (ZnO), have not only piezoelectric property
but also semiconductor characteristics. However, the semiconductor characteristics are …

Flexible and wearable acoustic wave technologies

J Zhou, Y Guo, Y Wang, Z Ji, Q Zhang, F Zhuo… - Applied Physics …, 2023‏ - pubs.aip.org
Flexible and wearable acoustic wave technology has recently attracted tremendous
attention due to their wide-range applications in wearable electronics, sensing …

Flexible surface acoustic wave resonators built on disposable plastic film for electronics and lab-on-a-chip applications

H **, J Zhou, X He, W Wang, H Guo, S Dong… - Scientific reports, 2013‏ - nature.com
Flexible electronics are a very promising technology for various applications. Several types
of flexible devices have been developed, but there has been limited research on flexible …