[HTML][HTML] Advances in piezoelectric thin films for acoustic biosensors, acoustofluidics and lab-on-chip applications

YQ Fu, JK Luo, NT Nguyen, AJ Walton… - Progress in Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently, piezoelectric thin films including zinc oxide (ZnO) and aluminium nitride (AlN)
have found a broad range of lab-on-chip applications such as biosensing, particle/cell …

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 …

Soft robotic perception system with ultrasonic auto-positioning and multimodal sensory intelligence

Q Shi, Z Sun, X Le, J **e, C Lee - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Flexible electronics such as tactile cognitive sensors have been broadly adopted in soft
robotic manipulators to enable human-skin-mimetic perception. To achieve appropriate …

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 …

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 …

Piezoelectric MEMS resonators: A review

G Pillai, SS Li - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since two decades piezoelectric MEMS resonator research has been making a headway by
leaps and bounds in multiple fronts such as micro/nanofabrication techniques, device and …

Piezoelectric thin films: an integrated review of transducers and energy harvesting

A Khan, Z Abas, HS Kim, IK Oh - Smart Materials and Structures, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Piezoelectric thin films offer a number of advantages in various applications, such as high
energy density harvesters, a wide dynamic range, and high sensitivity sensors, as well as …

Giant piezoelectricity on Si for hyperactive MEMS

SH Baek, J Park, DM Kim, VA Aksyuk, RR Das, SD Bu… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) incorporating active piezoelectric layers offer
integrated actuation, sensing, and transduction. The broad implementation of such active …

Piezoelectric MEMS sensors: state-of-the-art and perspectives

S Tadigadapa, K Mateti - Measurement Science and technology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past two decades, several advances have been made in micromachined sensors
and actuators. As the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) has advanced, a …

Review of ultrasonic ranging methods and their current challenges

Z Qiu, Y Lu, Z Qiu - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ultrasonic ranging has been widely used in automobiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),
robots and other fields. With the appearance of micromachined ultrasonic transducers …