Finite element modeling and experimental characterization of crosstalk in 1-D CMUT arrays

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2007-02-01

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Bayram, Barış
Yaralioglu, Coksen G.
Oralkan, Omer
Ergun, Arif Sanli
Lin, Der-Song
Wong, Serena H.
Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T.

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Crosstalk is the coupling of energy between the elements of an ultrasonic transducer array. This coupling degrades the performance of transducers in applications such as medical imaging and therapeutics. In this paper, we present an experimental demonstration of guided interface, waves in capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs). We compare the experimental results to finite element calculations using a commercial package (LS-DYNA) for a 1-D CMUT array operating in the conventional and collapsed modes. An element in the middle of the array was excited with a unipolar voltage pulse and the displacements were measured using a laser interferometer along the center line of the array elements immersed in soybean oil. We repeated the measurements for an identical CMUT array covered with a 4.5-mu m polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer. The main crosstalk mechanism is the dispersive guided modes propagating in the fluid-solid interface. Although the transmitter element had a center frequency of 5.8 MHz with a 130% fractional bandwidth in the conventional operation, the dispersive guided mode was observed with the maximum amplitude at a frequency of 2.1 MHz, and had a cut-off frequency of 4 MHz. In the collapsed operation, the dispersive guided mode was observed with the maximum amplitude at a frequency of 4.0 MHz, and had a cut-off frequency of 10 MHz. Crosstalk level was lower in the collapsed operation (-39 dB) than in the conventional operation (-24.4 dB). The coverage of the PDMS did not significantly affect the crosstalk level, but reduced the phase velocity for both operation modes. Lamb wave modes, An and So, were also observed with crosstalk levels of -40 clB and -65 dB, respectively. We observed excellent agreement between the finite element and the experimental results.

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Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Instrumentation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56116

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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https://doi.org/10.1109/tuffc.2007.256

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Article

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B. Bayram et al., “Finite element modeling and experimental characterization of crosstalk in 1-D CMUT arrays,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, pp. 418–430, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56116.