Development of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers

F Akasheh, T Myers, JD Fraser, S Bose… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2004 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs) are an example of the
application of MEMS technology to ultrasound generation and detection, which is expected …

Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs): performance metrics, advancements, and applications

Y Birjis, S Swaminathan, H Nazemi, GCA Raj… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the development of technology, systems gravitate towards increasing in their
complexity, miniaturization, and level of automation. Amongst these systems, ultrasonic …

Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers: Modeling the influence of structural parameters on device performance

F Akasheh, JD Fraser, S Bose… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs), a potential alternative for
conventional one-dimensional phased array ultrasonic transducers, were investigated. We …

Airborne piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers for long-range detection

GL Luo, Y Kusano, DA Horsley - journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an airborne piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers
(PMUTs) operated at low frequency (40-50 kHz) for long-range detection, where the acoustic …

Experiment and simulation validated analytical equivalent circuit model for piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers

K Smyth, SG Kim - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An analytical Mason equivalent circuit is derived for a circular, clamped plate piezoelectric
micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) design in 31 mode, considering an arbitrary …

Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer (PMUT) arrays for integrated sensing, actuation and imaging

Y Qiu, JV Gigliotti, M Wallace, F Griggio, CEM Demore… - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
Many applications of ultrasound for sensing, actuation and imaging require miniaturized and
low power transducers and transducer arrays integrated with electronic systems …

Modeling, fabrication, and characterization of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays based on cavity SOI wafers

Y Lu, DA Horsley - Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents high fill-factor piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer
(PMUT) arrays fabricated via a novel process using cavity SOI wafers. The simple three …

Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer technology: recent advances and applications

Y He, H Wan, X Jiang, C Peng - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The objective of this article is to review the recent advancement in piezoelectric
micromachined ultrasound transducer (PMUT) technology and the associated piezoelectric …

Review of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers and their applications

J Jung, W Lee, W Kang, E Shin, J Ryu… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent decades, micromachined ultrasonic transducers (MUTs) have been investigated as
an alternative to conventional piezocomposite ultrasonic transducers, primarily due to the …

Zero-bending piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) with enhanced transmitting performance

T Wang, C Lee - Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) has enabled numerous
exciting ultrasonic applications. However, residual stress and initial buckling may worsen …