Piezoelectric MEMS—Evolution from sensing technology to diversified applications in the 5G/Internet of Things (IoT) era

X Le, Q Shi, P Vachon, EJ Ng… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The rapid development of the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G) and Internet of Things
(IoT) is inseparable from a large number of miniature, low-cost, and low-power sensors and …

Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer technology: recent advances and applications

Y He, H Wan, X Jiang, C Peng - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The objective of this article is to review the recent advancement in piezoelectric
micromachined ultrasound transducer (PMUT) technology and the associated piezoelectric …

Multifunctional and wearable patches based on flexible piezoelectric acoustics for integrated sensing, localization, and underwater communication

Q Zhang, Y Wang, D Li, J Xie, K Tao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible and wearable sensors are highly desired for health monitoring, agriculture, sport,
and indoor positioning systems applications. However, the currently developed wireless …

Airborne piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers for long-range detection

GL Luo, Y Kusano, DA Horsley - journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an airborne piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers
(PMUTs) operated at low frequency (40-50 kHz) for long-range detection, where the acoustic …

Implementing (K, Na) NbO3-based lead-free ferroelectric films to piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers

Y Huang, L Shu, F Hu, L Liu, Z Zhou, S Zhang, W Li… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs) have attracted widespread
attentions on account of their vital applications in medical imaging, fingerprint identification …

Neuromorphic object localization using resistive memories and ultrasonic transducers

F Moro, E Hardy, B Fain, T Dalgaty… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Real-world sensory-processing applications require compact, low-latency, and low-power
computing systems. Enabled by their in-memory event-driven computing abilities, hybrid …

Multi‐Length Engineering of (K, Na)NbO3 Films for Lead‐Free Piezoelectric Acoustic Sensors with High Sensitivity

YX Liu, J Zhou, Y Jiang, CBW Li, C Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With increasing concerns about noise pollution, the pursuit of highly dependable
piezoelectric acoustic sensors for real‐time noise monitoring has come to the forefront of …

Fabrication and characterization of row-column addressed pMUT array with monocrystalline PZT thin film toward creating ultrasonic imager

Z Liu, S Yoshida, DA Horsley, S Tanaka - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we fabricated a row-column addressed 2-dimensional piezoelectric
micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) array based on the monocrystalline Pb (Zr, Ti) …

Review of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers for rangefinders

J Pan, C Bai, Q Zheng, H Xie - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) rangefinders have been rapidly
developed in the last decade. With high output pressure to enable long-range detection and …

High-SPL air-coupled piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers based on 36% ScAlN thin-film

Y Kusano, I Ishii, T Kamiya… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, air-coupled piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs)
using 36% scandiumdoped aluminum nitride (ScAlN) thin-film are presented. ScAlN is …