M.J. Anderson, J. Cho, C. Richards, D. Bahr, R. Richards
{"title":"A comparison of piezoelectric and electrostatic electromechanical coupling for ultrasonic transduction and power generation","authors":"M.J. Anderson, J. Cho, C. Richards, D. Bahr, R. Richards","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603008","url":null,"abstract":"Electrostatic and piezoelectric electromechanical coupling are employed in miniature devices to produce ultrasonic waves or generate power. It has been pointed out in the technical literature that in principle electrostatic devices can be designed to have an electromechanical coupling factor of nearly 100%, while it is thought that the upper limit for piezoelectric devices is significantly smaller. We have recently developed a closed-form model of a thin-film piezoelectric device to predict the performance of membrane piezoelectric energy converters. The model was used to identify several key design and process parameters that have a substantial effect on electromechanical coupling. This model is general enough to allow a comparison of the two technologies, electrostatics and piezoelectrics, at a lower level of detail. In this paper, the model is used to compare the components of the electromechanical coupling factor; capacitance, stiffness, and actuation force, for the two energy conversion technologies. The comparison shows that the capacitance and actuation force coefficient are drastically different for the two technologies, and are controlled by fundamental material properties and device geometries. Consequences of the differences for the design of ultrasonic transducers and power generation devices are discussed.","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127201560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determination of velocity vector angles using the directional cross-correlation method","authors":"J. Kortbek, J. Jensen","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603101","url":null,"abstract":"A method for determining both velocity magnitude and angle in any direction is suggested. The method uses focusing along the velocity direction and cross-correlation for finding the correct velocity magnitude. The angle is found from beamforming directional signals in a number of directions and then select the angle with the highest normalized correlation between directional signals. The approach is investigated using Field II simulations and data from the experimental ultrasound scanner RASMUS and with a parabolic flow having a peak velocity of 0.3 m/s. A 7 MHz linear array transducer is used with a normal transmission of a focused ultrasound field. The velocity profile estimates from simulations have relative mean standard deviations between 0.7% and 7.7% for flow between 45 ◦ and 90 ◦ . The angle estimation performance is highly dependent on the choice of the time ktprf · Tprf (correlation-time) between signals to correlate, and a proper choice varies with flow angle and flow velocity. One performance example is given with a fixed value of ktprf for all flow angles. The angle estimation on measured data for flow at 60 ◦ to 90 ◦ , yields a probability of valid estimates between 68% and 98% and with standard deviations between 1 ◦ and 4 ◦ . The optimal value of ktprf for each flow angle is found from a parameter study to reveal the potential of the method and with these values the performance on simulated data yields angle estimates with no outlier estimates and with standard deviations below 2 ◦ .","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"253 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127360852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polyimide backed 40-MHz PVDF transducers","authors":"J. Ketterling, O. Aristizábal, D. Turnbull","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602810","url":null,"abstract":"Single-element focused PVDF transducers are widely used for high-frequency (> 30 MHz) ultrasound imaging because of their broad bandwidth (BW) and ease of fabrication. A method of fabricating high-frequency transducers (both single element and annular arrays) using a copper-clad polyimide (CCP) film epoxy-bonded to PVDF is presented here. To validate this fabrication technique, single-element PVDF (9-µ mt hick) transducers and an annular array with five rings were assem- bled. Transducer performance was compared quantitatively by measuring center frequency, fractional -6-dB BW and two-way insertion loss (IL). BW and IL were measured from pulse- echo signals from a quartz plate positioned at the geometric focus. CCP backed transducer B-mode images of mouse embryos, acquired using a custom ultrasound backscatter microscope, were of equivalent quality as standard single element PVDF transducers.","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129946000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Bulletti, L. Capineri, L. Masotti, O. Occhiolini, E. Rosi
{"title":"Strain measurements on carbon-epoxy composites by lamb waves piezopolymer interdigital transducers","authors":"A. Bulletti, L. Capineri, L. Masotti, O. Occhiolini, E. Rosi","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602879","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we studied Lamb waves in composite materials for pure bending stress measurements. According to a theoretical analysis of the relationship between the strain due to pure bending and the variations of phase velocity, it turns out that this effect can be measured with a combined guided mode, obtained by the superposition of A1 and S1 modes propagating at the same group velocity. This operating condition has been obtained by proper design of interdigital transducers (IDT). In our experiment we have fabricated piezopolymer IDTs operating at 450 kHz and mounted on a cross-ply (0°/90°) 4 mm thick composite laminate, subjected to a pure bending stress on 4 points. The results obtained with this ultrasonic method are compared with standard strain gages measurements in the range (0-1500) µe.","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130008115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyses of surface acoustic wave propagation in phononic crystal waveguides using FDTD method","authors":"Jia-Hong Sun, Tsung-Tsong Wu","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602799","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we adopt finite difference time domain (FDTD) method to analyze surface acoustic waves propagating in two-dimensional phononic waveguides. To implement the FDTD program for dealing with surface acoustic waves, the Bloch theorem and absorbing boundary conditions are employed to deal with the periodic boundary condition and reflection from a numerical boundary. A phononic crystal consisting of circular tungsten cylinders which form a square lattice in a silicon matrix is analyzed in this study. The dispersion relation and displacement fields are calculated to identify the band gaps and eigenmodes. The result shows the existence of a total band gap of surface waves and thus an acoustic waveguide is created accordingly. The analysis shows a confined propagation of the surface waves inside the waveguide.","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132378766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical label recognition in spectral and time domains with collinear acoustooptic devices for photonic router","authors":"N. Goto, Y. Miyazaki","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602830","url":null,"abstract":"Wavelength-selective switching in collinear acoustooptic (AO) devices is investigated for applications to WDM photonic routers. The switching characteristics of optical signals by weighted AO interaction are studied numerically using FDTD method and the results are compared with the coupled mode theory. I. Introduction In photonic networks, photonic routing will be an indispensable function for processing high-bit rate optical packets over wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) large-capacity networks. Optical generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) is a promising technology and has been intensively studied. Routing information is described on the routing label, which is attached to a packet as a header. Various methods of mapping the label information on optical codes have been proposed, which include using the wavelength itself, the subcarrier, the combination of wavelengths, and the optical codes encoded in the time domain or frequency domain.","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131937392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Shimizu, Ayako Kondo, M. Nishida, H. Takeda, T. Nishida, Tadashi Nara
{"title":"Electro-acoustical constants and Rayleigh SAW propagation characteristics of rare-earth calcium oxoborate single crystals","authors":"H. Shimizu, Ayako Kondo, M. Nishida, H. Takeda, T. Nishida, Tadashi Nara","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603004","url":null,"abstract":"Electro-acoustical constants (eij T , sij E , dij) of the rare- earth calcium oxoborate RCa4O(BO3)3 (R = La, Gd, Y; RCOB) piezoelectric single crystals, which belong to the monoclinic structure with point group m, were evaluated. Their electro- acoustical constants were systematically compared to the ionic radius of the R-site ions. The piezoelectric constants d11, d12, d13, d31, d32 and d33 hardly changed with the increasing R-site ionic radius. It was confirmed that the 1/(ρ sii E ) terms, which consist of diagonal components of elastic compliances (sii E : i = 1-6) and the RCOB crystal density ρ, were closely related to the measured SAW velocities. The Rayleigh SAW velocities for the fundamental X-, Y- and Z-cuts were theoretically calculated in their crystals, which showed a good agreement with the measured values in all the fundamental cuts of their crystals. In common among their crystals, symmetrical propagation profiles were obtained on the X- and Z-cuts, on the other hand, the Y-cut did not show any symmetrical propagation ones. The Euler angles Ψ with minimum Rayleigh SAW velocities on their Y-cuts were larger than 90 o . These results in their Y-cuts were attributed to","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132321122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Tsujino, M. Hongoh, M. Yoshikuni, H. Miura, T. Ueoka
{"title":"Welding characteristics and temperature rises of various frequency ultrasonic plastic welding","authors":"J. Tsujino, M. Hongoh, M. Yoshikuni, H. Miura, T. Ueoka","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602949","url":null,"abstract":"Welding characteristics and temperature rises in plastic welding specimens over frequency range of 27 kHz to 180 kHz are studied. Using 27 kHz, 40 kHz, 67 kHz, 94 kHz, 150 kHz and 180 kHz ultrasonic plastic welding systems, tem- perature rises at welding surfaces of lapped 1.0-mm- and 3.0- mm-thick polypropylene plates are measured using thermo- couples inserted between plate specimens, and also tempera- ture rise distributions at cross sections of the lapped plate specimens are measured using a thermo-tracer. Maximum temperature rise measured was over 330 °C. Temperature rises are highest at welding surfaces compared with the other welding parts.","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"2272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130249943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Safiye Dursun, T. Varslot, T. Johansen, B. Angelsen, H. Torp
{"title":"Fast 3D simulation of 2nd harmonic ultrasound field from arbitrary transducer geometries","authors":"Safiye Dursun, T. Varslot, T. Johansen, B. Angelsen, H. Torp","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603260","url":null,"abstract":"A method for fast numerical simulation of nonlinear wave propagation based on a quasi-linear approximation has previously been presented. In the current study this method has been further developed to yield correct levels of the second- harmonic wave. The method can be used for 3D simulations of second-harmonic fields from arbitrarily transducer geometries. The method has been validated by comparing simulations to results produced by a conventional nonlinear simulation model and to experimental measurements. The reference simulation model was a numerical solution of the KZK equation for a forward-propagating pulse using a operator splitting approach. Experimental verifications were performed with hydrophone measurements in a water tank. Results showed a good match between the simulation models and measurements for MI up to 0.4 for an annular array probe and for MI up to 1 for a rectangular probe. For higher MI values the quasi-linear method showed a gradual increased over-estimation of the second harmonic field.","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130402046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Borehole flexural waves in formations with radially varying properties","authors":"B. Sinha, H. Valero, T. Ikegami, J. Pabon","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602914","url":null,"abstract":"Elastic wave propagation in a fluid-filled borehole is affected by near-wellbore alteration of formation properties. Near-wellbore alteration can be caused by several sources, such as overbalance drilling, borehole stress concentrations, shale swelling, near- wellbore mechanical damage and supercharging of permeable formations. Optimal completions of a well for production require both identification and estimation of the radial extent of alteration in reservoir intervals. Measured borehole flexural dispersions in the presence of radial gradients in formation properties can be inverted to estimate the radial extent of mechanical alteration. However, the presence of a tool structure that carries the acoustic transmitters and hydrophone receivers also introduces certain amount of bias on the measured borehole flexural dispersions. This paper describes the Backus-Gilbert inversion of synthetic borehole flexural data for radial variation in formation shear slowness (slowness is inverse of velocity). The inversion algorithm accounts for the tool bias on the measured data by introducing an equivalent structure of a heavy-fluid column placed concentrically with the borehole axis. This simple structure enables computation of the eigensolution for a reference homogeneous and isotropic formation that are used for calculating the data kernel in the perturbation integral equation. The solution of this integral equation yields the radial variation in the formation shear modulus in terms of fractional differences in the measured and reference dispersion at various wavenumbers. Results are presented for both radially increasing and decreasing shear slownesses away from the borehole.","PeriodicalId":302030,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2005.","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127922632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}