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Air-coupled CMUT arrays based on MUMPS

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dc.creator Octavio Manzanares, Alberto
dc.creator Martínez-graullera, Oscar
dc.creator Martín Arguedas, Carlos J.
dc.creator Gómez-Ullate Alvear, Luis
dc.creator Montero de Espinosa Freijo, Francisco
dc.date 2008-06-25T10:58:55Z
dc.date 2008-06-25T10:58:55Z
dc.date 2007-12
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:49:04Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:49:04Z
dc.identifier XIX Congreso Internacional de Acústica (ICA2007)
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/5314
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/5314
dc.description Ponencia presentada en el XIX Congreso Internacional de Acústica (ICA2007), Madrid, 2-7 Sep 2007.-- PACS: 43.38.Hz.
dc.description Manufacturing capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (cMUTs) is possible using several low cost standard processes. The multi-user MEMS process (MUMPS) offers this possibility. However, it has some limitations: diaphragms and air gaps of approximately 2 μm thick limit the performance of the resulting device.
dc.description With the aim of developing an air-coupled 2-D array, several typologies were designed, made and characterized. It was shown that all of them work as was expected with a good bandwidth in air but there were some negative effects on their behaviour. The polysilicon layers are heavily doped and in principle they do not need a metallization layer. Nevertheless studying the obtained results it was shown that when a metal electrode is deposited over the polysilicon membrane, the performance of the transducer is improved. Moreover, the acoustic pressure leaving from the etch holes and other acoustical ports added in several designs have a negative effect in the emitted pressure. In this work, square shaped polysilicon membranes with a gold electrode have been simulated and made to reduce these detected negative effects. Two different array apertures, a 1-D array and a sparse 2-D array, have been designed to study their efficiency.
dc.description Funding from DPI2004-06756-C03-01 and 03 – CICYT projects is acknowledged.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Sociedad Española de Acústica
dc.relation ICA2007
dc.relation ULT-04-005
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (cMUTs)
dc.subject Multi-User MEMS process (MUMPS)
dc.subject Air-coupled 2-D CMUT arrays
dc.subject Transducer performance
dc.subject Array efficiency
dc.title Air-coupled CMUT arrays based on MUMPS
dc.type Comunicación de congreso


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