Microfluidic acoustic sawtooth metasurfaces for patterning and separation using traveling surface acoustic waves

Lab Chip. 2021 Dec 21;22(1):90-99. doi: 10.1039/d1lc00711d.

Abstract

We demonstrate a sawtooth-based metasurface approach for flexibly orienting acoustic fields in a microfluidic device driven by surface acoustic waves (SAW), where sub-wavelength channel features can be used to arbitrarily steer acoustic fringes in a microchannel. Compared to other acoustofluidic methods, only a single travelling wave is used, the fluidic pressure field is decoupled from the fluid domain's shape, and steerable pressure fields are a function of a simply constructed polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) metasurface shape. Our results are relevant to microfluidic applications including the patterning, concentration, focusing, and separation of microparticles and cells.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acoustics
  • Lab-On-A-Chip Devices
  • Microfluidics*
  • Sound*