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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 27.
Published in final edited form as: Soft Matter. 2018 Jun 27;14(25):5283–5293. doi: 10.1039/c8sm01000e

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(A) The assembled focused ultrasound sample environment and (B) a top down slice view through the midplane of the sample environment. The sample is held in an aluminum sample holder in the center of the apparatus. 100 μm thin Kapton windows cover the front and back face of the sample holder where the X-ray or neutron beam must pass. Similarly, Kapton film windows are used on the left and right face of the sample holder for acoustic transmission. Beneath the sample holder is a custom built unfocused polyvinylidene (PVDF) transducer that is acoustically coupled to the aluminum body of the sample holder with ultrasound gel. Left and right of the sample holder are two chambers acoustically coupled to the primary sample holder with gel. Each chamber holds a focused transducer submerged in degassed water to insonate the sample.