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ArticleMicromachines2025

Multiple Ring Electrode-Based PMUT with Tunable Deflections.

Jan Helmerich, Manfred Wich, Annika Hofmann, Thomas Schaechtle, Stefan Johann Rupitsch

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Article in Micromachines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Jan HelmerichLaboratory for Electrical Instrumentation and Embedded Systems, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4886-1091
Manfred WichLaboratory for Electrical Instrumentation and Embedded Systems, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5039-5045
Annika HofmannLaboratory for Electrical Instrumentation and Embedded Systems, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg, Germany.
Thomas SchaechtleLaboratory for Electrical Instrumentation and Embedded Systems, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5304-4213
Stefan Johann RupitschLaboratory for Electrical Instrumentation and Embedded Systems, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4806-9838

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Abstract

Ultrasonic applications such as non-destructive testing, biomedical imaging or range measurements are currently based on piezoelectric bulk transducers. Yet, these kinds of transducers with their mm to cm dimensions are rather impractical in fields in which both frequencies in the kHz region and small-feature sizes are required. This fact mainly relates to the inverse relationship between the resonance frequency constant and the transducers' dimension, yielding a higher frequency and attenuation with a decreasing size. Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs), in comparison, incorporate a small-scale µm design while preserving the operating frequency in the desired kHz range. This contribution presents the detailed manufacturing of such a PMUT with a multiple ring electrode‑based structure to additionally adjust the sound pressure fields. The PMUT will be characterized by its deflection in air along with the characterization of the piezoelectric material lead zirconate titanate (PZT) itself. The measurements showed a maximum polarization of 21.8 µC/cm

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adjustable deflectioncharacterization of piezoelectric materialsmultiple electrode designPMUTPZT annealingultrasonic transducers

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PMID40572343
PMCPMC12195067

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