1.IntroductionUltrasound allows biocompatible and contactless bioimaging and therapeutic applications such as ultrasound imaging,1 high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment,2 and ultrasonic drug delivery.3 Conventional ultrasonic transducers often utilize piezoelectric (PZT) materials, which induce ultrasonic waves through mechanical vibration.4 However, the resonant behavior of PZT materials results in a narrow bandwidth5 and low transmission efficiency due to a large impedance mismatch between PZT () and biological tissues ().6 In addition, they require complicate steps of micropackaging such as precise mechanical dicing7 and multiple electrical connections.8 Micromachined ultrasonic transducers (MUTs) such as piezoelectric MUTs9 and capacitive MUTs10,11 have emerged as an alternative solution for technical limitations of conventional PZT transducers. Wafer-scale microfabrication of highly integrated MUTs allows high-density transducer arrays with controllable resonant frequency and broad bandwidth through variation of diaphragm sizes.12 However, they still exhibit technical bottlenecks such as multiple electrical connections,13 undesirable crosstalk,14,15 and complicated microfabrication.16 Optoacoustic transducers with nanosecond pulsed light and micro/nanoscale optical absorbers have introduced an approach for broadband ultrasound generation. The pulsed light excitation induces light-to-heat conversion in the optical absorbers, resulting in thermal expansion and subsequent generation of broadband ultrasound in the surrounding medium.17,18 High optoacoustic pressure is achieved by combining optical absorbers with high light absorption and thermal expanding polymer matrices with a high coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE).19–21 Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) serves as a prevalent thermal expanding layer due to the high CTE of , compared with water and other polymers.22 Optical absorbers can be further improved with carbon-based materials such as carbon-nanotubes,23–25 candle soot nanoparticles,26 and carbon nanofibers,27 or metallic surfaces using Al,28 Cr,29,30 and Au.31 Recently, plasmonic nanostructures with localized surface plasmon resonance have been employed in optoacoustic transducers, thanks to the plasmonic photothermal effect as well as ultrathin thickness.32–34 Electromagnetic hotspots between two-dimensional or three-dimensional nanostructures significantly enhance the optoacoustic amplitude.35,36 For example, three-dimensional Ag nanostructures significantly enhance the optoacoustic amplitude by more than 20 times compared to a polymeric substrate without plasmonic structures.19 However, the common utilization of bulky Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers with nanosecond pulse widths (PWs; ) impedes the system integration into a compact optoacoustic module, despite the progress in optical absorbers. Optoacoustic generation utilizing semiconductor light sources, such as light-emitting diodes37–39 and laser diodes (LDs),40–42 have been limited to optoacoustic imaging applications and have not led to substantial progress in transducer development. Here, we report compact plasmon-enhanced optoacoustic transducer (PEAT) for broadband ultrasound therapy and imaging applications by utilizing an overdriven pulsed LD. Figure 1(a) illustrates the working principle of PEAT including a thin polymer film-coated nanoplasmonic substrate (NPS) and a single LD. The LD is overdriven above the nominal current level by applying high pulsed current, resulting in pulsed laser beam with high optical peak power. The focused laser beam is injected on the NPS with highly dense electromagnetic hotspots, which allows efficient photothermal conversion due to high light absorption. The thermoelastic expansion of polymer thin film finally generates broadband optoacoustic waves. 2.Materials and Methods2.1.Nanofabrication of Ecoflex-Coated NPSThe nanofabrication procedure of Ecoflex-coated NPS is shown in Fig. 1(b). Glass nanopillar arrays (GNAs) were fabricated using thermal evaporation and annealing of Ag thin film and reactive ion etching of the glass wafer. Nanogap-rich NPS was fabricated using thermal evaporation of Au thin film on the GNAs, and the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) of . The Ecoflex-coated NPS was finally prepared by spin-coating and curing the Ecoflex prepolymer. Figure 1(c) shows the cross-sectional scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of the Ecoflex-coated NPS. The fabricated Ecoflex-coated NPS exhibits a high optical absorption, primarily due to the abundant nanogaps between Au nanoislands, as shown in Fig. S1 in the Supplementary Material. The fully packaged PEAT module consists of an LD; an aspheric lens for collimation, i.e., collimating lens (CL); a plano-convex lens for focusing, i.e., focusing lens (FL); and an Ecoflex-coated NPS. The chip size of Ecoflex-coated NPS () was adjusted to the module size of the LD. The physical dimension of the PEAT module shows , as shown in Fig. 1(d). 2.2.Plasmon-Enhanced Optoacoustic Generation System Using Overdriven LDA LD-based plasmon-enhanced optoacoustic generation system is shown in Fig. 2. Figure 2(a) shows the experimental setup for underwater optoacoustic measurement using overdriven LD. A current pulse train of a nanosecond PW is generated by a high current short pulse driver based on the preconfigured square waveform. The input current level is adjusted with the current control voltage to exceed the nominal current level of the LD. A laser beam is initially collimated with the aspheric lens, and then precisely focused on the back side of the NPS with the plano-convex lens. The NPS induces thermal expansion of the thin Ecoflex film and leads to ultrasound generation. The ultrasonic waves are measured with a hydrophone positioned at 45 deg to avoid baseline distortion resulted from high optical power, as shown in Fig. S2 in the Supplementary Material. Note that the hydrophone detects all optoacoustic waves at the incident angles below 20 deg, exhibiting the maximum sensitivity for optoacoustic waves at the normal incidence. The optoacoustic signal is finally amplified with a 20-dB preamplifier and acquired with a LabVIEW interface via an oscilloscope with an input impedance of 50 Ω.43 The time-domain waveforms were converted into the frequencies using Fourier transform in MATLAB. The optical image of experimental setup is shown in Fig. S3 in the Supplementary Material. Figure 2(b) shows the time-lapsed waveforms of input current and laser beam. The optical pulse train is highly correlated with the current pulse train, operating at a frequency () of 30 kHz and a PW of 70 ns. Note that turn-on delay times of 40 and 2 ns longer optical PW result from the throughput delay of the high current short pulse driver44 and the inductance on an LD packaging,41 respectively. Figure 2(c) shows the input current and the optical peak power of the overdriven LD depending on the current control voltage. The input current linearly increases with the current control voltage, whereas the optical peak power tends to level off due to the carrier leakage.45 The optical peak power reaches 40 W at the input current of 33 A, which is approximately an order of magnitude higher than the average optical power of 3 W at the nominal current of 2 A. 3.Results and Discussion3.1.Plasmon-Enhanced Optoacoustic Generation via PEAT Depending on Thin Ecoflex FilmPlasmon-enhanced optoacoustic generation has been experimentally demonstrated with PEAT, as shown in Fig. 3. Figure 3(a) shows optoacoustic signals from thick Ecoflex-coated NPS and a bare NPS under illumination with a laser beam with the optical peak power of 33 W and PW of 70 ns at a current control voltage of 50 . The measured optoacoustic signals exhibit distinct positive and negative peaks of compressive and tensile waves due to thermoelastic expansion and contraction of the thin polymer film. The Ecoflex-coated NPS significantly enhances the optoacoustic amplitude by a factor of 4 due to the large thermal expansion of Ecoflex. Note that Ecoflex has a CTE of and thus the optoacoustic amplitude is enhanced by a ratio of CTE of Ecoflex to PDMS, as shown in Table S1 in the Supplementary Material.22 Figure 3(b) shows peak-to-peak voltages of optoacoustic signals from Ecoflex-coated NPSs depending on the thickness of Ecoflex. The thicknesses of Ecoflex were controlled with different speed of spin-coating, ranging from 1000 to 6000 rpm. Thinner Ecoflex films enhance optoacoustic signals by enabling rapid heat transfer from the NPS, converting highly confined thermal energy directly into optoacoustic waves without thermal diffusion.46 Figure 3(c) shows the frequency responses of the corresponding optoacoustic signals. The measured ultrasonic frequencies from the Ecoflex-coated NPS exhibit an eightfold amplitude increase at 2.5 MHz compared with the bare NPS. The experimental results clearly show that the peak frequency is inversely proportional to the square root of the thickness of thermal expanding layer.47 For instance, the thick Ecoflex film increases broadband and high-frequency components with a fractional bandwidth higher than 160%, and a peak frequency of 2.5 MHz. Note that the fractional bandwidth of conventional PZT transducer is around 45%.6 In contrast, the thick Ecoflex film shows relatively lower frequencies around 1.8 MHz with the fractional bandwidth of 230%. 3.2.Plasmon-Enhanced Optoacoustic System via PEAT Depending on Laser ModulationLaser modulation dependent plasmon-enhanced optoacoustic generation has been experimentally demonstrated with PEAT, as shown in Fig. 4. Figure 4(a) shows the optoacoustic signals using collimated and focused laser beams with an optical peak power of 33 W and a PW of 160 ns. A large illumination area of collimated beam [full width at half maximum (FWHM) of beam diameter: ] generates ultrasound in a wide area beyond the focal spot of focused beam (FWHM of beam diameter: ). The focused laser beam increases the optoacoustic amplitude by 1.7 times compared with the collimated laser beam due to intense laser fluence confined within the focused spot. Figure 4(b) shows peak-to-peak voltages of optoacoustic signals depending on the laser fluence of the focused beam. The laser fluence was modulated by controlling the current control voltage within the range of 5 to 70 V. The peak-to-peak voltage of optoacoustic signals linearly increase with the laser fluence, which demonstrates the strong linearity between the optoacoustic pressure and the laser fluence.48 Note that the optoacoustic amplitude is proportional to the temporal derivative of the corresponding optical pulse, as shown in Fig. S4 in the Supplementary Material.49 Figure 4(c) shows the optoacoustic signals depending on the PW of focused laser beam. The optoacoustic signals become broaden and increase in the amplitude with the PW. As the laser PW increases, the positive peak saturates at the PW of 120 ns, as shown in Fig. S5 in the Supplementary Material, whereas the negative peak rises due to the enhanced Gruneisen coefficient caused by the temperature increase in the Ecoflex film.50,51 The optoacoustic amplitude at the PW of 200 ns corresponds to a peak-to-peak pressure around 0.6 kPa at the 2 mm distance from the Ecoflex-coated NPS. The Nd:YAG nanosecond laser generates optoacoustic amplitude enhanced by two orders of magnitude compared to the overdriven LD. However, the intense output pulse energy from the laser results in damage and delamination of Ecoflex thin film, as shown in Fig. S6 in the Supplementary Material. The optoacoustic amplitude can be further improved by employing structural modifications such as composite thermal expansion layer52 or high absorbance optical cavity.29 Figure 4(d) shows the frequency responses of the corresponding optoacoustic signals. The maximum amplitude exhibits a quadratic growth with the laser PW and finally levels off due to thermal energy saturation.53 As a result, the optimal thickness of Ecoflex and the laser modulation allow the precise control of the output optoacoustic waves, particularly the optoacoustic amplitude and the peak frequency. 3.3.Experimental Demonstration of Acoustic Atomization via PEATThe acoustic atomization of liquid inside a microfluidic chip has been experimentally demonstrated with PEAT, as shown in Fig. 5. Figure 5(a) shows the experimental setup for acoustic atomization in PDMS microfluidic channel and the optical images before and after the laser irradiation for 30 s. A PDMS-coated NPS is utilized instead of the Ecoflex-coated NPS for ensuring tight adhesion between the microfluidic chip and PEAT by oxygen plasma treatment. The PDMS microfluidic chip features microgroove structures for trapping air bubbles, whereas the middle microchannel is filled with injected fluid such as deionized (DI) water. The irradiation of pulsed laser beam with a frequency of 5 kHz and a PW of 100 ns generates the movement of trapped microbubbles and aerosol microdroplets at the air–liquid interface. The coalescence and expansion of moving microbubbles blocks the flow of DI water by forming an air slug at the middle of microchannel. Figure 5(b) shows the influence of photothermally generated heat on the acoustic atomization. The surface temperature NPS was measured using an infrared thermographic camera. The NPS reaches the maximum temperature of 34.5°C after 2 min of pulsed laser beam irradiation. The microfluidic chip bonded to the PDMS-coated NPS was placed on a hotplate set at 40°C, exceeding the maximum temperature of 34.5°C. The mild heat of 40°C results in negligible bubble expansion without the formation of an air slug. Figure 5(c) shows the influence of pulsed laser beam on the acoustic atomization. The pulsed laser beam is directed onto the PDMS microfluidic chip bonded to a bare glass wafer with perfect optical transmittance. The minimal impact of pulsed laser beam ensures that high-frequency optoacoustic waves induce the atomization of liquid. As a result, the acoustically driven microfluidic atomization facilitates various microfluidic functions such as the development of microbubble-based microvalves, without additional pumping units. 4.ConclusionsWe have successfully demonstrated the PEAT for broadband ultrasound generation. The PEAT features the LD, the aspheric lens, the plano-convex lens, and the Ecoflex-coated NPS. The overdriven pulsed LD achieves the maximum optical peak power of 40 W, which is -fold higher than the average optical power of 3 W. The experimental results clearly show that the optimal Ecoflex thickness and laser modulation allow for precise control of the optoacoustic waves, particularly the amplitude and the peak frequency. Finally, optoacoustic waves within the PEAT-integrated microfluidic chip induce atomization at the air–liquid interface and create an air slug in the end. This optoacoustic transducer can provide a platform of ultrasound generation for on-demand and compact biomedical applications, including ultrasound imaging and lab-on-a-chip technologies. DisclosuresThe authors of this article do not have any conflicts of interest, financial, or otherwise, to report. Code and Data AvailabilityThe datasets that support the findings of this article are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. 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BiographyHamin Na received her MS degree from the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2021. Now, she is a PhD candidate in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST. Her research interests include plasmonic optoacoustic transducers for healthcare applications. Jaehyeok Park received his PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2022. Now, he is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST. His research interests include optical design for healthcare applications. Ki-Hun Jeong received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005. Currently, he is a full professor in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), as well as a codirector at KAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology. His research focuses biophotonic MEMS/NEMS including plasmonic optoacoustic transducer. |
Optoacoustics
Ultrasound transducers
Ultrasonography
Thin films
Microfluidics
Acoustics
Laser frequency