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DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH FREQUENCY FOCUSED TRANSDUCERS FOR
SINGLE BEAM ACOUSTIC TWEEZERS
by
Hsiu-Sheng Hsu
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(MATERIALS SCIENCE)
December 2012
Copyright 2012 Hsiu-Sheng Hsu
Object Description
| Title | Development of high frequency focused transducers for single beam acoustic tweezers |
| Author | Hsu, Hsiu-Sheng |
| Author email | hsiusheh@usc.edu;hsiusheng@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Materials Science |
| School | Viterbi School of Engineering |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-10-18 |
| Date submitted | 2012-11-20 |
| Date approved | 2012-11-20 |
| Restricted until | 2012-11-20 |
| Date published | 2012-11-20 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Shung, K. Kirk |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Zhou, Qifa Goo, Edward Nutt, Steven R. Yen , Jesse |
| Abstract | Contactless particle trapping and manipulation have found many potential applications in diverse fields, especially in biological and medical research. Among the various methods, optical tweezers is the most well-known and extensively investigated technique. However, there are some limitations for particle manipulation based on optical tweezers. Due to the conceptual similarity with the optical tweezers and recent advances in high frequency ultrasonic transducer, a single beam acoustic tweezer using high frequency (≥ 20 MHz) focused transducer has recently been considered, and its feasibility was theoretically and experimentally investigated. ❧ This dissertation mainly describes the development of high frequency focused ultrasonic transducers for single beam acoustic tweezers applications. Three different types of transducers were fabricated. First, a 60 MHz miniature focused transducer (<1 mm) was made using press-focusing technique. The single beam acoustic trapping experiment was performed to manipulate 15 µm polystyrene microspheres using this transducer. In vitro ultrasonic biomicroscopy imaging on the rabbit eye was also obtained with this device. Second approach is to build a 200 MHz self-focused ZnO transducer by sputtering ZnO film on a curved surface of the aluminum backing material. An individual 10 µm microsphere was effectively manipulated in two dimensions by this type of transducer. Another ultrahigh frequency focused transducer based on silicon lens design has also been developed, where a 330 MHz silicon lens transducer was fabricated and evaluated. Microparticle trapping experiment was carried out to demonstrate that silicon lens transducer can manipulate a single microsphere as small as 5 µm. The realization of single beam acoustic tweezers using high frequency focused transducers can offer wide range of applications in biomedical and chemical sciences including intercellular kinetics studies and cell stimulation. ❧ Additionally, we propose a simple and efficient approach to prepare xPMN-PT-(1-x)PZT (where x is 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9) composite films with controllable dielectric constant that offers better performance for high frequency ultrasonic transducer applications. A 200 MHz single element transducer utilizing 0.9PMN-PT-0.1PZT thin film was built. This type of xPMN-PT-(1-x)PZT film transducers may satisfy current needs of very high frequency biomedical applications, such as ultrasonic biomicroscopy or acoustic tweezers. |
| Keyword | transducers; ultrahigh frequency; ultrasound; acoustic tweezers; Sol-gel; focused; microparticles manipulation |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Hsu, Hsiu-Sheng |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume6/etd-HsuHsiuShe-1317.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH FREQUENCY FOCUSED TRANSDUCERS FOR SINGLE BEAM ACOUSTIC TWEEZERS by Hsiu-Sheng Hsu A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (MATERIALS SCIENCE) December 2012 Copyright 2012 Hsiu-Sheng Hsu |
