Design and Fabrication of a Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer Array Based on Ceramic PZT

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作者
Wang, Haoran [1 ]
Yu, Yuanyuan [1 ,2 ]
Chen, Zhenfang [3 ]
Yang, Hao [4 ]
Jiang, Huabei [4 ]
Xie, Huikai [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Florida, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Gainesville, FL 32601 USA
[2] Tianjin Univ, State Key Lab Precis Measuring Technol & Instrume, Tianjin, Peoples R China
[3] MEMS Engn & Mat Inc, Sunnyvale, CA USA
[4] Univ S Florida, Dept Med Engn, Tampa, FL USA
来源
2018 IEEE SENSORS | 2018年
关键词
pMUT; micromachined transducers; ultrasonic transducers; ceramic PZT; piezoelectric;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper presents a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) array fabricated using high-piezoelectric-coefficient ceramic PZT wafers. A new process for polishing ceramic PZT layers down to 5 pm has been developed and applied for manufacturing high-sensitivity pMUTs. A 2 MHz working pMUT array (8x8 elements) based on ceramic PZT has been designed, modeled, fabricated and characterized.
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页码:986 / 989
页数:4
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