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 …

Modeling, fabrication, and characterization of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays based on cavity SOI wafers

Y Lu, DA Horsley - Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents high fill-factor piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer
(PMUT) arrays fabricated via a novel process using cavity SOI wafers. The simple three …

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) …

Review of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers for rangefinders

J Pan, C Bai, Q Zheng, H **e - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) rangefinders have been rapidly
developed in the last decade. With high output pressure to enable long-range detection and …

A sensitive optical micro-machined ultrasound sensor (OMUS) based on a silicon photonic ring resonator on an acoustical membrane

SM Leinders, WJ Westerveld, J Pozo, P Van Neer… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
With the increasing use of ultrasonography, especially in medical imaging, novel fabrication
techniques together with novel sensor designs are needed to meet the requirements for …

Total-focus ultrasonic imaging of defects in solids using a PZT piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer array

W Ji, L Liu, Z **ng, D Zhang, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work demonstrates the ultrasonic imaging ability of piezoelectric micromachined
ultrasonic transducer (PMUT) for the detection of defects deep in solids by total-focus …

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 …

Development of a high-density piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer array based on patterned aluminum nitride thin film

E Shin, HG Yeo, A Yeon, C **, W Park, SC Lee… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study presents the fabrication and characterization of a piezoelectric micromachined
ultrasonic transducer (pMUT; radius: 40 µm) using a patterned aluminum nitride (AlN) thin …

Flexible piezoelectric micro ultrasonic transducer array integrated on various flexible substrates

W Liu, C Zhu, D Wu - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible ultrasonic transducers have attracted much attention in industrial and biomedical
applications. However, most of them are fabricated based on a single substrate by complex …