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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Biocompatible and Hermetic Encapsulation of PMUTs: Effects of Parylene F-VT4 and ALD Stacks on Membrane Vibration and Acoustic Performance.

Esmaeil Afshari, Samer Houri, Rik Verplancke, Veronique Rochus, Maarten Cauwe, Pieter Gijsenbergh, Maaike Op de Beeck

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Parylenes in bioanalytical and cell culture applications.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Esmaeil AfshariIMEC-Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2020-0646
Samer HouriIMEC-Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2733-1366
Rik VerplanckeIMEC-Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-6642-9454
Veronique RochusIMEC-Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-9680-5724
Maarten CauweIMEC-Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-6413-998X
Pieter GijsenberghIMEC-Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0135-6968
Maaike Op de BeeckIMEC-Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2700-6432

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The motivation of this work is to enable the use of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT)-based implants within the human body for biomedical applications, particularly for power and data transfer for implanted medical devices. To protect surrounding tissue and ensure PMUT functionality over time, biocompatible and hermetic encapsulation is essential. This study investigates the impact of Parylene F-VT4 layers of various thicknesses as well as the effect of multilayer stacks of Parylene F-VT4 combined with atomic layer-deposited nanolayers of Al

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flexible coatinghermetic encapsulationimplantable ultrasonic devicesPMUT

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PMID40648330
PMCPMC12251638

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