Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Amgad Rezk

Leslie Yeo

Shwathy Ramesan

James Robert Friend

Heba Ahmed

James Tan

An apparatus, including at least one piezoelectric chip having a working surface, and an opposing at least substantially parallel transducer surface; and at least one interdigital transducer applied to the transducer surface of the chip for generating acoustic energy within the chip in response to an application of an electrical signal to the interdigital transducer; wherein the working surface of the chip is, when in use, in contact with a fluid receptacle to thereby acoustically actuate fluid accommodated within said fluid receptacle, the chip being directly in contact with the receptacle or in contact with a fluid coupling medium that is in contact with the receptacle.

Apparatus for addressing wells within a microarray plate

A device, comprising: an electroacoustic transducer on a substrate; a power supply to supply electromagnetic wave energy to the electroacoustic transducer; and a source of a substance that is movable to the substrate; wherein the electroacoustic transducer and the substrate are configured to generate acoustic wave energy that is used to move the substance from the source to the substrate, and to manipulate the substance on the substrate.

Acoustic wave microfluidic devices with increased acoustic wave energy utilisation

An intracellular delivery device () including, a piezoelectric substrate () having a working surface (), at least one interdigitated transducer () located on and in contact with the working surface (), and a receptacle () located on the working surface for accommodating cells to be targeted for intracellular delivery therein, wherein an alternating signal applied to the interdigitated transducer generates acoustic wave energy through the piezoelectric substrate that can be transferred to the accommodated cells.

Method and device for acoustically mediated intracellular delivery

A piezoelectric actuation platform () including piezoelectric substrate () formed from a single crystal piezoelectric material, and at least one simple electrode () in contact with the piezoelectric substrate for applying an electrical signal to the substrate such that a lamb or surface acoustic wave can be generated within said substrate.

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