Diamond-based capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers

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2012-02-01

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Bayram, Barış

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Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) employing diamond membranes are demonstrated. The design, finite element modeling, microfabrication, and experimental characterization of diamondbased CMUTs are reported. Ultrananocrystalline diamond having a chemical mechanical polished silicon dioxide interlayer deposited via high temperature oxide (HTO) process at 850 degrees C in a low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) furnace is employed as the membrane to form vacuum sealed cavities using plasma-activated direct bonding technology. Electrical impedance, deflection, and transmission measurements of a fabricated CMUT are performed in air using an impedance analyzer, a white light interferometer and a hydrophone, respectively. Experimental results verify the accuracy of finite element modeling. Diamond-based CMUTs possess 3-dB fractional bandwidth of 3% at a center frequency of 1.74 MHz in air. Our experimental results demonstrate diamond as an alternate membrane material for CMUTs, and that diamond can be employed in novel microelectromechanical devices.

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Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer, Ultrananocrystalline diamond, Plasma-activated direct bonding, Microelectromechanical devices

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35991

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DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2011.11.006

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B. Bayram, “Diamond-based capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers,” DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS, pp. 6–11, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35991.