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datestamp: 2017-12-03 11:17:15
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type: article
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creators_name: Bui, Thu Hang
creators_name: Morana, Bruno
creators_name: Akhnoukh, Atef
creators_name: Chu, Duc
creators_name: Sarro, Pasqualina M.
creators_id: T.H.Bui@tudelft.nl
creators_id: morana@gmail.com
creators_id: akhnoukh@gmail.com
creators_id: trinhcd@vnu.edu.vn
creators_id: sarro@gmail.com
title: Liquid identification by using a micro-electro-mechanical interdigital transducer
ispublished: pub
subjects: isi
divisions: fac_fet
abstract: A surface-acoustic-mode aluminum nitride (AlN) transducer is utilized to determine the type of liquid dropped on the propagation path. It is based on tracking the shrinking droplet radius and observing stagnant liquid molecules during and after the liquid evaporation process. The device configuration is suitable to test small amounts of liquids, in the microliter range. According to both mass loading and physical property mechanisms, eight samples of liquids, isopropanol (IPA), ethanol (ETH), deionized-water (DW), tap water (TW), heptane (HEP), propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate (PGMEA), hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) and acetone (ACE), which have different equilibrium vapor pressures, molecular weights and boiling points, are accurately detected. The experimental results show that the rate of the change in the energy loss including a slow and fast attenuation region depends on the change of physical properties, such as density, sound speed in liquids and evaporation rate, during the evaporation process. As the evaporation rate of the DW is rather slow, the slow attenuation region occurs for a longer time than the fast one. Consequently, the whole oscillation duration of the attenuation occurs for a longer time, whereas that of the other liquids studied, like ACE, ETH, and IPA, having a faster evaporation rate is shorter. Sensitivities of the surface-acoustic-mode transducer to the evaporation process of liquids such as DW, TW, PGMEA, HMDS, HEP, IPA, ETH and ACE are -29.39, -29.53, -31.79, -34.12, -33.62, -32.87, -32.67, and -32.82 dB small mu m-2{,} respectively. The concentration of stagnant liquid molecules causes a change in the surface mass of the micro-electro-mechanical transducer{,} which causes a frequency shift and increases the signal noise at the receiver after the liquid evaporation process. The average frequency shifts of ACE{,} HEP{,} HMDS{,} ETH{,} IPA{,} PGMEA{,} TW and DW are 241{,} 206{,} 172{,} 117{,} 76{,} 27.3{,} 11.6 and 0 kHz{,} respectively{,} coherent with the type of formed liquid pattern on the device surface{,} thus allowing to detect liquid samples effectively.
date: 2017
date_type: published
publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6AN01804A
full_text_status: none
publication: Analyst
volume: 142
pagerange: 763-771
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0003-2654
citation:   Bui, Thu Hang and Morana, Bruno and Akhnoukh, Atef and Chu, Duc and Sarro, Pasqualina M.  (2017) Liquid identification by using a micro-electro-mechanical interdigital transducer.  Analyst, 142 .   pp. 763-771.  ISSN 0003-2654