CMOS-integrated aluminum nitride MEMS: A review

RMR Pinto, V Gund, RA Dias… - Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aluminum nitride (AlN) has gained wide interest owing to its high values of elastic modulus,
band gap, dielectric strength, resistivity, thermal conductivity and acoustic velocities …

Overview of ultrasound detection technologies for photoacoustic imaging

R Manwar, K Kratkiewicz, K Avanaki - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ultrasound detection is one of the major components of photoacoustic imaging systems.
Advancement in ultrasound transducer technology has a significant impact on the translation …

[HTML][HTML] Review of flexible microelectromechanical system sensors and devices

X Yang, M Zhang - Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Today, the vast majority of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensors are
mechanically rigid and therefore suffer from disadvantages when used in intimately …

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) …

Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs): performance metrics, advancements, and applications

Y Birjis, S Swaminathan, H Nazemi, GCA Raj… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the development of technology, systems gravitate towards increasing in their
complexity, miniaturization, and level of automation. Amongst these systems, ultrasonic …

Monolithic single PMUT-on-CMOS ultrasound system with+ 17 dB SNR for imaging applications

I Zamora, E Ledesma, A Uranga, N Barniol - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a fully integrated ultrasound system based on a single piezoelectric
micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT) monolithically fabricated with a 0.13 μm …

PMUT and CMUT devices for biomedical applications: A review

E Moisello, L Novaresi, E Sarkar, P Malcovati… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUT) and Capacitive
Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (CMUT) have seen great developments in recent …

Integrated transceivers for emerging medical ultrasound imaging devices: A review

C Chen, MAP Pertijs - IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As medical ultrasound imaging moves from conventional cart-based scanners to new form
factors such as imaging catheters, hand-held point-of-care scanners and ultrasound …

A mm-sized acoustic wireless implantable neural stimulator based on a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer

Y Ning, AC Lombarte, Y Gong, S Sun, Z Rong… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Implantable medical devices are increasingly being used to perform electrophysiological
stimulation, thus calling for wireless implantable neural stimulators for which wireless power …

Phased array based on AlScN Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers monolithically integrated on CMOS

I Zamora, E Ledesma, A Uranga… - IEEE Electron Device …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we present an array of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer
(PMUT's) based on AlScN piezoelectric layer, monolithically integrated on top of a 130 nm …