Design and Fabrication of a High-Power Air-Coupled Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer Array With Concentric Annular Cells
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Abstract
One shortcoming of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) for commercial use is the weak output power relative to traditional ultrasonic transducers. Recently, we reported an annular CMUT cell with an improved transmit efficiency over a conventional circular cell in air. Extending this paper, we designed and fabricated a nine-element concentric CMUT array to enhance the transmit power and offer depth focusing. The proposed 200-kHz array has an aperture diameter of 2.13 cm and a fill factor of 81%. A pillar-free etching process was developed to create the deep large-area cavities of the proposed wafer-bonded CMUT. The fabricated device was characterized for the static and dynamic performance using a profilometer and a laser Doppler vibrometer, respectively. The average maximum plate dynamic displacements of the CMUT driven by 20-Vpp ac excitation voltage at dc biases of 100 and 150 V were measured to be 1.28 and 1.97 μm, respectively. Accordingly, the surface output power densities were calculated to be 0.40 and 0.96 KW/m <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> . We investigated the crosstalk between neighboring cells and the plate-cracking phenomenon, and provided relative suggestions for improvement. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of the concentric annular-cell CMUT array design for air-coupled applications.
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