Concave Array Ultrasonic Transducer From Multilayer Piezoelectric Ceramic for Photoacoustic Imaging

Implementation of piezoelectric multilayer ceramic (MLC) is an effective way to reduce impedance and improve the performance of linear-array transducer for ultrasonic system applications. However, the ultrasonic image derived from a planar linear-array transducer generally suffers from degradation o...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control. - 1986. - 68(2021), 8 vom: 24. Aug., Seite 2760-2765
Auteur principal: Ke, Qingqing (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Liew, Weng Heng, Zhang, Lei, Tan, Chin Yaw, Jiang, Chang-Yun, Tan, Chee Kiang Ivan, Yao, Kui
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2021
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Résumé:Implementation of piezoelectric multilayer ceramic (MLC) is an effective way to reduce impedance and improve the performance of linear-array transducer for ultrasonic system applications. However, the ultrasonic image derived from a planar linear-array transducer generally suffers from degradation of lateral resolution and contrast. In this article, we designed and fabricated a focused 5-MHz 128-element linear-array ultrasonic transducer with concave structure using five-layered 0.1Pb (Ni1/3Nb2/3)O3 -0.35Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 -0.15Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.1PbZrO3-0.3PbTiO3 (PNN-PZN-PMN-PZ-PT) piezo- electric ceramic. The transducer showed a bandwidth of 63% at -6 dB and the lateral resolution up to 0.33 mm. An improved transmission signal of 90% higher than a commercial single-layer ceramic transducer was also achieved. We further demonstrated high-resolution photoacoustic imaging with the obtained concave linear-array transducer
Description:Date Completed 30.09.2021
Date Revised 30.09.2021
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1525-8955
DOI:10.1109/TUFFC.2021.3077889