[HTML][HTML] cMUT technology developments

CD Herickhoff, R van Schaijk - Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 2023 - Elsevier
Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (cMUT) technology has steadily advanced
since its advent in the mid-1990's. Though cMUTs have not supplanted piezoelectric …

A review on analytical modeling for collapse mode capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer of the collapse voltage and the static membrane deflections

JJ Wang, X Liu, YY Yu, Y Li, CH Cheng, S Zhang… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Analytical modeling of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) is one of the
commonly used modeling methods and has the advantages of intuitive understanding of the …

High-efficiency output pressure performance using capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers with substrate-embedded springs

BC Lee, A Nikoozadeh, KK Park, BT Khuri-Yakub - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) with substrate-embedded
springs offer highly efficient output pressure performance over conventional CMUTs, owing …

A novel coupled piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer based on piston mode

L Wang, W Zhu, Z Wu, W Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) modified
with a piston diaphragm term as piston diaphragm pMUT (PD-pMUT). The transmission …

An improved displacement model for micro-electro-mechanical-system based ultrasonic transducer

M Pal, NP Maity, R Maity - Microsystem Technologies, 2019 - Springer
This paper analyses the electrical capacitance, electrostatic force on the membrane and
displacement profile of a silicon nitride based micromachined ultrasonic transducer. These …

Broadband piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer with a resonant cavity

W Zhu, L Wang, Z Wu, W Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a broadband piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer
(PMUT) surrounded by a resonant cavity called C-PMUT. The C-PMUT shows two …

Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers with corrugated diaphragms using surface micromachining

GL Luo, DA Horsley - … on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key metric of micromachined ultrasonic transducer (MUT) performance is the volume
velocity, which determines the transmitting output pressure. Here, we present a study to …

Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) Made with SWCNTs/Parylene-C Composite Membranes

J Liu, Y Li, Y Luo, Q Chen - ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
Traditional CMUTs are fabricated from silicon-based membranes. However, the poor
flexibility and high cost of silicon-based membranes have resulted in low output pressure …

Rational design of CMUTs with annular electrodes for high ultrasonic emission via ESSE enabled stiffness adjustment

Z Li, S Zhang, Y Zhao, S Qin, S Bai, J Yuan, J Li… - Microelectronic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Capacitive micromechanical ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) with high transmitting acoustic
pressure are in urgent demand in the rapidly growing field of air-coupled and therapeutic …

Experimental characterization of an embossed capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer cell

Y Yu, J Wang, X Liu, SH Pun, S Zhang, CH Cheng… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) is a promising ultrasonic
transducer in medical diagnosis and therapeutic applications that demand a high output …