- Zhang, Xiang;
- Son, Rosa;
- Lin, Yen-Ju;
- Gill, Alexi;
- Chen, Shilin;
- Qi, Tong;
- Choi, David;
- Wen, Jing;
- Lu, Yunfeng;
- Lin, Neil YC;
- Chiou, Pei-Yu
Acoustic patterning of micro-particles has many important biomedical applications. However, fabrication of such microdevices is costly and labor-intensive. Among conventional fabrication methods, photo-lithography provides high resolution but is expensive and time consuming, and not ideal for rapid prototyping and testing for academic applications. In this work, we demonstrate a highly efficient method for rapid prototyping of acoustic patterning devices using laser manufacturing. With this method we can fabricate a newly designed functional acoustic device in 4 hours. The acoustic devices fabricated using this method can achieve sub-wavelength, complex and non-periodic patterning of microparticles and biological objects with a spatial resolution of 60 μm across a large active manipulation area of 10 × 10 mm2.