Photoacoustic imaging—a hybrid biomedical imaging modality finding its way to clinical
practices. Although the photoacoustic phenomenon was known more than a century back …

Ultrasound detection is one of the major components of photoacoustic imaging systems.
Advancement in ultrasound transducer technology has a significant impact on the translation …

The objective of this article is to review the recent advancement in piezoelectric
micromachined ultrasound transducer (PMUT) technology and the associated piezoelectric …

Nanogenerators, based on piezoelectric or triboelectric materials, have emerged in the
recent years as an attractive cost-effective technology for harvesting energy from renewable …

Piezoelectricity refers to the ability of certain materials to generate electric charges when
subjected to mechanical stress or strain, and vice versa. This phenomenon has been widely …

Compared to aluminum nitride (AlN) with simple stoichiometry, lead zirconate titanate thin
films (PZT) are the other promising candidate in advanced micro-electro-mechanical system …

With the development of technology, systems gravitate towards increasing in their
complexity, miniaturization, and level of automation. Amongst these systems, ultrasonic …

Miniaturized ultrasonic transducer arrays with multiple frequencies are key components in
endoscopic photoacoustic imaging (PAI) systems to achieve high spatial resolution and …

Distributed intelligence involving a large number of smart sensors and edge computing are
highly demanded under the backdrop of increasing cyber‐physical interactive applications …

Optical imaging involves the propagation of light through tissue. Current optical breast
imaging technologies, including diffuse optical spectroscopy, diffuse optical tomography …