In comparison to more developed optical method for microparticle manipulation like optical tweezers, an optopiezoelectric actuating system could provide force output that is several orders higher. Taking advantages of photoconductive materials, the concept of integrating a virtual electrode in a distributed opto-piezoelectric actuators was developed for real-time in-situ spatial tailoring for vast varieties of applications in biochips, smart structures, etc. In this study, photoconductive material titanium oxide phthalocyanine (TiOPc) was used as the active ingredient to enable the virtual electrode in an opto-piezoelectric material based distributed actuator. By illuminating light of proper wavelength and enough intensity onto TiOPc photoconductive material, the effective impedance of the illuminated portion of TiOPc could drop significantly. The contributions of using additives in the TiOPc photoconductive electrode to adjust the electrical properties was investigated for optimization. Further, the two-mode excited linear ultrasonic motor was also studied and the feasibility to integrate the TiOPc photoconductive electrode was discussed. The flexibility provided by this newly developed system could potential deliver versatile performance in biochip applications.
In this paper, we present a new type of piezoelectric composite material, optopiezoelectric thin-film, to serve as a lightactivated micropump for integrating with a microfluidic device. By using a photoconductive material (titanium oxide phthalocyanine) to serve as one of the electrodes of a piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymer, multiple locations of this optopiezoelectric thin-film can be actuated independently with one driving voltage source and a programmable light mask. Integrating this optopiezoelectric thin-film to a microfluidic device, complex operations of a multi-functioned microfluidic device can potentially be simplified and scaled up. Here, we present our preliminary result to demonstrate the feasibility of using one optopiezoelectric thin-film to serve as two microfluidic micropumps controlled by a light mask.
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