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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 105, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3065476
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- Hong Kong Innovative Technology Council [K-ZP-21]
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- NIH [P41-EB2182]
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Lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate single crystal 0.72Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O-3-0.28PbTiO(3) (abbreviated as PMN-PT) was used to fabricate high performance ultrasonic phased-array transducer as it exhibited excellent piezoelectric properties. In this paper, we focus on the design and fabrication of a low-loss and wide-band transducer for medical imaging applications. A KLM model based simulation software PiezoCAD was used for acoustic design of the transducer including the front-face matching and backing. The calculated results show that the -6 dB transducer bandwidth can be improved significantly by using double lambda/8 matching layers and hard backing. A 4.0 MHz PMN-PT transducer array (with 16 elements) was fabricated and tested in a pulse-echo arrangement. A -6 dB bandwidth of 110% and two-way insertion loss of -46.5 dB were achieved. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3065476]
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