Density-tapered spiral arrays for ultrasound 3-D imaging

A Ramalli, E Boni, AS Savoia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current high interest in 3-D ultrasound imaging is pushing the development of 2-D
probes with a challenging number of active elements. The most popular approach to limit …

Material structure and mechanical properties of silicon nitride and silicon oxynitride thin films deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition

Z Gan, C Wang, Z Chen - Surfaces, 2018 - mdpi.com
Silicon nitride and silicon oxynitride thin films are widely used in microelectronic fabrication
and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Their mechanical properties are important for …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative comparison of PZT and CMUT probes for photoacoustic imaging: Experimental validation

M Vallet, F Varray, J Boutet, JM Dinten, G Caliano… - Photoacoustics, 2017 - Elsevier
Photoacoustic (PA) signals are short ultrasound (US) pulses typically characterized by a
single-cycle shape, often referred to as N-shape. The spectral content of such wideband …

Development of MEMS MOS gas sensors with CMOS compatible PECVD inter-metal passivation

A Bagolini, A Gaiardo, M Crivellari, E Demenev… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) based micro-electromechanical sensors (MEMS) for gas
measurement were developed using back-end-of-line (BEOL) compatible inter-metal …

Thin film encapsulation for RF MEMS in 5G and modern telecommunication systems

A Persano, F Quaranta, A Taurino, PA Siciliano… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this work, SiNx/a-Si/SiNx caps on conductive coplanar waveguides (CPWs) are proposed
for thin film encapsulation of radio-frequency microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS) …

Silicon nitride films fabricated by a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method for coatings of the laser interferometer gravitational wave detector

HW Pan, LC Kuo, SY Huang, MY Wu, YH Juang… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Silicon is a potential substrate material for the large-areal-size mirrors of the next-generation
laser interferometer gravitational wave detector operated in cryogenics. Silicon nitride thin …

Adapting the electron beam from SEM as a quantitative heating source for nanoscale thermal metrology

P Yuan, JY Wu, DF Ogletree, JJ Urban, C Dames… - Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The electron beam (e-beam) in the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) provides an
appealing mobile heating source for thermal metrology with spatial resolution of∼ 1 nm, but …

Graphene acoustic transducers based on electromagnetic interactions

X Guo, J An, H Wu, Z Cai, P Wang - Ultrasonics, 2021 - Elsevier
Graphene acoustic transducers have high sensitivity in receiving mode. However, they are
used in transmitting mode with low radiation performance. A graphene acoustic transducer …

Thermal annealing of thin PECVD silicon-oxide films for airgap-based optical filters

M Ghaderi, G De Graaf… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper investigates the mechanical and optical properties of thin PECVD silicon-oxide
layers for optical applications. The different deposition parameters in PECVD provide a …

Fabrication and characterization of a high frequency and high coupling coefficient CMUT array

R Manwar, T Simpson, A Bakhtazad… - Microsystem …, 2017 - Springer
Fabrication and initial measurement results of a bisbenzocyclobutene (BCB) based
capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) linear phased array has been …