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Self-Focused AlScN Film Ultrasound Transducer for Individual Cell Manipulation.

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Precise cell positioning is indispensable in the fields of biophysics and cellular biology. Acoustic microbeam produced by a highly focused ultrasound transducer has recently been investigated for a particle or… Click to show full abstract

Precise cell positioning is indispensable in the fields of biophysics and cellular biology. Acoustic microbeam produced by a highly focused ultrasound transducer has recently been investigated for a particle or cell manipulation. By virtue of the relatively good piezoelectric property, Sc doped AlN film was introduced for a highly focused ultrasound transducer application. Using a sputtering approach, a self-focused AlScN film based device has been designed, fabricated, and characterized at a frequency of ∼230 MHz. It had a narrow lateral beam width (∼8.2 μm). The AlScN ultrasound transducer was not only shown to be capable of remote controlling a single 10 μm polystyrene microsphere in distilled water, but also demonstrated to possess the capability to manipulate without contact individual 10 μm epidermoid carcinoma cell in two dimensions within a range of hundreds of micrometers in phosphate buffered saline. Most importantly, the cell manipulation was realized in continuous mode and no switch-on and -off operation was needed. These results suggest that self-focused AlScN film ultrasound transducer is a promising candidate for biomedical and molecular biology applications.

Keywords: ultrasound transducer; biology; cell manipulation; film; transducer

Journal Title: ACS sensors
Year Published: 2017

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