Acoustic trapping in bubble-bounded micro-cavities
Acoustic trapping in bubble-bounded micro-cavities
We present a method for controllably producing longitudinal acoustic trapping sites inside microfluidic channels. Air bubbles are injected into a micro-capillary to create bubble-bounded ‘micro-cavities’. A cavity mode is formed that shows controlled longitudinal acoustic trapping between the two air/water interfaces along with the levitation to the centre of the channel that one would expect from a lower order lateral mode. 7 µm and 10 µm microspheres are trapped at the discrete acoustic trapping sites in these micro-cavities. We show this for several lengths of micro-cavity.
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O’Mahoney, P.
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McDougall, C.
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Glynne-Jones, P.
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MacDonald, M.P.
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O’Mahoney, P.
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McDougall, C.
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Glynne-Jones, P.
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MacDonald, M.P.
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O’Mahoney, P., McDougall, C., Glynne-Jones, P. and MacDonald, M.P.
(2016)
Acoustic trapping in bubble-bounded micro-cavities.
Optofluidics, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 3 (1), .
(doi:10.1515/optof-2016-0003).
Abstract
We present a method for controllably producing longitudinal acoustic trapping sites inside microfluidic channels. Air bubbles are injected into a micro-capillary to create bubble-bounded ‘micro-cavities’. A cavity mode is formed that shows controlled longitudinal acoustic trapping between the two air/water interfaces along with the levitation to the centre of the channel that one would expect from a lower order lateral mode. 7 µm and 10 µm microspheres are trapped at the discrete acoustic trapping sites in these micro-cavities. We show this for several lengths of micro-cavity.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2 November 2016
Published date: 5 December 2016
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/403944
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