Nanocomposite cerium oxide polymer matching layers with adjustable acoustic impedance between 4 MRayl and 7 MRayl

被引：40

作者：

Tiefensee, Frank ^{[1
]}

Becker-Willinger, Carsten ^{[2
]}

Heppe, Gisela ^{[2
]}

Herbeck-Engel, Petra ^{[2
]}

Jakob, Anette ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Fraunhofer Inst Biomed Engn, D-66386 St Ingbert, Germany

[2] Leibniz Inst Neue Mat Campus D2 2, D-66123 Saarbrucken, Germany

来源：

ULTRASONICS | 2010年 / 50卷 / 03期

关键词：

Matching layer; Nanotechnology; Ultrasound; Acoustic impedance high frequency;

D O I：

10.1016/j.ultras.2009.08.012

中图分类号：

O42 [声学];

学科分类号：

070206 ; 082403 ;

摘要：

A new class of materials for ultrasonic matching layers is presented. The materials consist of nanoscale cerium oxide particles in an epoxy functionalized organic inorganic hybrid polymer matrix. The cerium oxide agglomerates to particles with 20 nm diameters. The content of particles in the polymer matrix could be increased to 75 wt.% which corresponds to 37 vol.%. The most technical important piezoelectrical ceramics have an acoustic impedance of about 30 MRayl, to improve coupling into water or biological tissue with an acoustic impedance of about 1.5 MRayl a matching layer should have an acoustic impedance of about 6.8 MRayl. With a filling degree of 75 wt.% the new composite material reaches an acoustic impedance of 7 MRayl. The materials are synthesized by a hydrolytic condensation combined with polymerization. This way of synthesis allows the use of organic solvents to adjust the viscosity of the sol and the application of different coating techniques. Ultrasound transducers (100 MHz) were built to test the new matching layers and an increase of the voltage signal amplitude of about 100% could be detected. (C) 2009 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.

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