The application of acoustics for sample manipulation and delivery at X-Ray Light Sources
Paper in proceeding, 2025
The latest developments in acoustic technology and their integration of standing waves offers the potential to eject and trap tiny amounts of both liquid and solids with precision and stability in free space. This is appealing for experimenters at Light Sources who are traditionally relying on the use of containers or on the manual attachment of the samples to solid supports for analysis with X rays or IR. Here we present a brief overview of applications of acoustics and levitation for sample manipulation and delivery currently under investigation at Diamond Light source.
Author
Peter Docker
Diamond Light Source
Danny Axford
Diamond Light Source
Mark R. Warren
Diamond Light Source
Beth Galtry
Diamond Light Source
Mark Frogley
Diamond Light Source
Gianfelice Cinque
Diamond Light Source
Gabriel Leen
PolyPico Technologies
University of Limerick
Nikolay Pavlov
PolyPico Technologies
Romain Bordes
Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Applied Chemistry
University of Limerick
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
17426588 (ISSN) 17426596 (eISSN)
Vol. 3010 1 012146
15th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation, SRI 2024
Hamburg, Germany,
Hamburg, Germany,
Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)
Polymer Chemistry
Fluid Mechanics
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/3010/1/012146