Journal
MICROMACHINES
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/mi13111886
Keywords
acoustofluidics; microparticle acoustophoresis; general defocusing particle tracking; particle-velocity spectroscopy
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Funding
- Innovation Fund Denmark [9046-00127B, E!113461]
- Vinnova, Sweden's Innovation Agency [2019-04500]
- European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
- VILLUM foundation [00036098]
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This study examines the effects of supplying a piezoelectric transducer with constant voltage or constant power during a frequency sweep on acoustofluidic resonance frequencies. It is shown that providing constant average power dissipation in the transducer is the most reliable approach for characterizing the intrinsic properties of acoustofluidic devices.
Supplying a piezoelectric transducer with constant voltage or constant power during a frequency sweep can lead to different results in the determination of the acoustofluidic resonance frequencies, which are observed when studying the acoustophoretic displacements and velocities of particles suspended in a liquid-filled microchannel. In this work, three cases are considered: (1) Constant input voltage into the power amplifier, (2) constant voltage across the piezoelectric transducer, and (3) constant average power dissipation in the transducer. For each case, the measured and the simulated responses are compared, and good agreement is obtained. It is shown that Case 1, the simplest and most frequently used approach, is largely affected by the impedance of the used amplifier and wiring, so it is therefore not suitable for a reproducible characterization of the intrinsic properties of the acoustofluidic device. Case 2 strongly favors resonances at frequencies yielding the lowest impedance of the piezoelectric transducer, so small details in the acoustic response at frequencies far from the transducer resonance can easily be missed. Case 3 provides the most reliable approach, revealing both the resonant frequency, where the power-efficiency is the highest, as well as other secondary resonances across the spectrum.
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