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Optically excited nanoscale ultrasonic transducers

Smith, Richard J.; Cota, Fernando Perez; Marques, Leonel; Chen, Xuesheng; Arca, Ahmet; Webb, Kevin; Aylott, Jonathan W.; Somekh, Michael G.; Clark, Matt

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Authors

Leonel Marques

Xuesheng Chen

Ahmet Arca

Jonathan W. Aylott

MATT CLARK matt.clark@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Optics



Abstract

© 2015 Acoustical Society of America. In order to work at higher ultrasonic frequencies, for instance, to increase the resolution, it is necessary to fabricate smaller and higher frequency transducers. This paper presents an ultrasonic transducer capable of being made at a very small size and operated at GHz frequencies. The transducers are activated and read optically using pulsed lasers and without physical contact between the instrumentation and the transducer. This removes some of the practical impediments of traditional piezoelectric architectures (such as wiring) and allows the devices to be placed immediately on or within samples, reducing the significant effect of attenuation which is very strong at frequencies above 1 GHz. The transducers presented in this paper exploit simultaneous optical and mechanical resonances to couple the optical input into ultrasonic waves and vice versa. This paper discusses the mechanical and optical design of the devices at a modest scale (a few μm) and explores the scaling of the transducers toward the sub-micron scale. Results are presented that show how the transducers response changes depending on its local environment and how the resonant frequency shifts when the transducer is loaded by a printed protein sample.

Citation

Smith, R. J., Cota, F. P., Marques, L., Chen, X., Arca, A., Webb, K., …Clark, M. (2015). Optically excited nanoscale ultrasonic transducers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(1), 219-227. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4904487

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 6, 2014
Online Publication Date Jan 23, 2015
Publication Date 2015-01
Deposit Date Jan 27, 2015
Publicly Available Date Jan 27, 2015
Journal Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Print ISSN 0001-4966
Electronic ISSN 1520-8524
Publisher Acoustical Society of America
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 137
Issue 1
Pages 219-227
DOI https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4904487
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/742743
Publisher URL http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/137/1/10.1121/1.4904487?aemail=author
Related Public URLs http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa
Additional Information Copyright 2015 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America.

The following article appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Amer (Vol.137, No.1) and may be found at http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/137/1/10.1121/1.4904487?aemail=author.
Contract Date Jan 27, 2015

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