Miniature valveless ultrasonic pumps and mixers

By J. Rife, M. I. Bell, J. Horwitz, M. Kabler, R. Auyeung, W. Kim. 2000

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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Micropumps—past, progress and future prospects (2005, background): “RF and ultrasonic pumping exploit the dragging force of a progressive mechanical wave [52,53]or the “quartz wind” of a vertically oscillating surface [54] which are excited at a liquid–solid interface, e.”
Microfluidic Mixing: A Review (2011, background): “[29] proposed a radio frequency-based microfluidic device with an operational frequency of 50 MHz that applied acoustic streaming to both pump and mix the sample species.”
A novel passive micromixer: lamination in a planar channel system (2010, background): “In a microchannel stretching and folding can be achieved in active mixers by moving solid elements (Rife et al. 2000; Niu and Lee 2003) or by applying time variant electric fields (Glasgow et al.”
Microscale acoustofluidics: Microfluidics driven via acoustics and ultrasonics (2011, background): “This complicated Frampton's analysis over earlier work by Rife et al. (2000), but was necessary due to the importance of viscosity in microfluidics and the large acoustic boundary layers within which the viscous attenuation of the acoustic energy dominates .”
Micromixers—a review (2005, unknown): “15 1050 20 Si–glass [101] Rife 2000 Acoustic 1600 1600 1 n/r 1.”
Microvalves and Micropumps for BioMEMS (2011, methodology): “In 2000, acoustic actuation was used to generate directed pumping of fluid in a planar microfluidic circuit via quartz wind acoustic streaming [97].”
Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale (2005, background): “Since −1 8.3 mm in water at 50 MHz and decreases like −2 Rife et al., 2000 , a natural size limit is imposed on quartz-wind-driven microfluidic devices, which are typically centimeter sized Zhu and Kim, 1998; Rife et al., 2000; Yang et al., 2000, 2001 .”