Design and Performance Analysis of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer Linear Array

نویسندگان

  • Hongliang Wang
  • Xiangjun Wang
  • Changde He
  • Chenyang Xue
چکیده

An ultrasonic transducer is a key component to achieve ultrasonic imaging. This paper designs a new type of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) based capacitive ultrasonic transducer and a linear array based on the transducer. Through directivity analysis, it can be found that its directivity is weak due to the small size of the designed transducer, but the directivity of the designed linear array is very strong. In order to further suppress the sidelobe interference and improve the resolution of the imaging system and imaging quality, the Dolph-Chebyshev weighting method and the Taylor weighting method are used to process −40dB sidelobe suppression, and satisfactory results are obtained, which can meet actual requirements.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Micromachines

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014