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 …

Thin-film PMUTs: A review of over 40 years of research

K Roy, JEY Lee, C Lee - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Thin-film PMUTs have been important research topics among microultrasound experts, and
a concise review on their research progress is reported herein. Through rigorous surveying …

Single-cell system using monolithic PMUTs-on-CMOS to monitor fluid hydrodynamic properties

E Ledesma, I Zamora, J Yanez, A Uranga… - Microsystems & …, 2022 - nature.com
In this work, a single cell capable of monitoring fluid density, viscosity, sound velocity, and
compressibility with a compact and small design is presented. The fluid measurement …

A PMUT integrated microfluidic system for fluid density sensing

K Roy, K Kalyan, A Ashok, V Shastri… - Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate the design, fabrication and use of a dual electrode PMUT (Piezoelectric
Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer) integrated with a microfluidic channel as a fluid …

Body conformal linear ultrasound array for combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging

K Roy, S Agrawal, A Dangi, T Liu… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on the development of combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging system
using Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) based flexible bulk transducer arrays. The transducer …

Photoacoustic image quality improvement from a single cell low frequency pmut

K Roy, A Paramanik, S Paul, A Kalyan, E Sarkar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Photoacoustic image (PAI) quality improvement using a low frequency piezoelectric
micromachined ultrasound transducer (PMUT) having the fundamental resonant frequency 1 …

Image quality enhancement of PMUT-based photoacoustic imaging

A Paramanick, K Roy, D Samanta… - … and Sensing 2023, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is now a very promising imaging technique that provides image
with sufficient depth, good resolution, and optical contrast. A conventional PAI system is …

An optofluidic dye concentration detector based on the pulsed photoacoustic effect

K Roy, A Thomas, S Paul, A Ashok… - Microfluidics …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We report the development of an opto-acousto-fluidic platform by combining an illumination
source in the form of a pulsed laser, a microfluidic channel, and an ultrasound transducer to …

Pmut-powered photoacoustic detection: Revolutionizing microfluidic concentration measurements

K Roy, A Kumar, V Shastri, I Munjal… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This report introduces a novel optofluidic platform based on piezo-microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS) technology, capable of identifying subtle variations in the fluid …

A PMUT based photoacoustic system as a microfluidic concentration detector

K Roy, V Shastri, A Kumar, J Rout, I Isha… - … and Sensing 2022, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We report on the development of a novel piezo-MEMS-based optofluidic platform to detect
the concentration of various species dissolved in a fluid. This platform employs piezoelectric …