“…Aerosol generation using surface acoustic waves (SAWs) on piezoelectric chip substrates was first demonstrated by Kurosawa et al in 1995 (Kurosawa et al, 1995a ). Since then, several promising fields of application for this technique were reported, including inhalation therapy (Qi et al, 2009 ; Rajapaksa et al, 2014 ), olfactory displays (Nakamoto et al, 2014 ), micro- and nanoparticle synthesis (Alvarez et al, 2008 ; Kim et al, 2005 ; Qi et al, 2011 ), thin film deposition (Murochi et al, 2007 ; Darmawan et al, 2014 ; Winkler et al, 2016a ) and mass spectroscopy of low- or non-volatile fluids (Ho et al, 2011 ; Huang et al, 2012 ; Monkkonen et al, 2016 ; Winkler et al, 2016b ).…”