An emerging era: conformable ultrasound electronics

L Zhang, W Du, JH Kim, CC Yu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conformable electronics are regarded as the next generation of personal healthcare
monitoring and remote diagnosis devices. In recent years, piezoelectric‐based conformable …

Integrated circuits for medical ultrasound applications: Imaging and beyond

Y Zhang, A Demosthenous - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical ultrasound has become a crucial part of modern society and continues to play a vital
role in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses. Over the past decades, the development of …

Fabrication and characterization of row-column addressed pMUT array with monocrystalline PZT thin film toward creating ultrasonic imager

Z Liu, S Yoshida, DA Horsley, S Tanaka - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we fabricated a row-column addressed 2-dimensional piezoelectric
micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) array based on the monocrystalline Pb (Zr, Ti) …

A pitch-matched transceiver ASIC with shared hybrid beamforming ADC for high-frame-rate 3-D intracardiac echocardiography

YM Hopf, BW Ossenkoppele… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for 3-D, high-frame-rate
ultrasound imaging probes is presented. The design is the first to combine element-level …

A pitch-matched high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging ASIC for catheter-based 3-D probes

YM Hopf, DS dos Santos… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for catheter-based 3-D
ultrasound imaging probes. The pitch-matched design implements a comprehensive …

Integrated transceivers for emerging medical ultrasound imaging devices: A review

C Chen, MAP Pertijs - IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As medical ultrasound imaging moves from conventional cart-based scanners to new form
factors such as imaging catheters, hand-held point-of-care scanners and ultrasound …

Phased array based on AlScN Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers monolithically integrated on CMOS

I Zamora, E Ledesma, A Uranga… - IEEE Electron Device …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we present an array of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer
(PMUT's) based on AlScN piezoelectric layer, monolithically integrated on top of a 130 nm …

Multi-frequency MEMS acoustic emission sensor

TM Khan, R Taha, T Zhang, D Ozevin - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a multi-frequency MEMS acoustic emission (AE) sensor is designed,
characterized, and tested. The sensor includes sixteen individual resonators tuned in the …

Enhancing AlN PMUTs' acoustic responsivity within a MEMS-on-CMOS process

E Ledesma, I Zamora, A Uranga, F Torres, N Barniol - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, guidelines for the optimization of piezoelectrical micromachined ultrasound
transducers (PMUTs) monolithically integrated over a CMOS technology are developed …

Photonic-electronic integrated circuit-based coherent LiDAR engine

A Lukashchuk, HK Yildirim, A Bancora… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Chip-scale integration is a key enabler for the deployment of photonic technologies.
Coherent laser ranging or FMCW LiDAR, a perception technology that benefits from …