Resource Center for Medical Ultrasonic Transducer Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2010 Oct;57(10):2213-20. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1680.
This paper presents the development of a micromachined high-frequency linear array using PZT piezoelectric thick films. The linear array has 32 elements with an element width of 24 μm and an element length of 4 mm. Array elements were fabricated by deep reactive ion etching of PZT thick films, which were prepared from spin-coating of PZT sol-gel composite. Detailed fabrication processes, especially PZT thick film etching conditions and a novel transferring-and-etching method, are presented and discussed. Array designs were evaluated by simulation. Experimental measurements show that the array had a center frequency of 80 MHz and a fractional bandwidth (-6 dB) of 60%. An insertion loss of -41 dB and adjacent element crosstalk of -21 dB were found at the center frequency.
本文介绍了一种使用 PZT 压电厚膜制作的高频微机械线性阵列的研制。该线性阵列有 32 个单元,单元宽度为 24μm,长度为 4mm。通过 PZT 厚膜的深反应离子刻蚀制作了阵列单元,PZT 厚膜是由 PZT 溶胶-凝胶复合旋涂而成。详细的制作工艺,尤其是 PZT 厚膜刻蚀条件和一种新颖的转移-刻蚀方法,都进行了介绍和讨论。通过模拟对阵列设计进行了评估。实验测量表明,该阵列的中心频率为 80MHz,带宽(-6dB)为 60%。在中心频率处,插入损耗为-41dB,相邻单元串扰为-21dB。