Biodegradable nanofiber-based piezoelectric transducer

Aluminum Nitride Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer Arrays

Air-coupled piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer arrays, operating at ~190 kHz, have been fabricated utilizing an aluminum nitride piezoelectric layer. Improved fabrication processes have reduced the frequency variation seen in our previous work with single transducers resulting in arrays of transducers with resonant frequencies (fn) that match within the fractional half-power band...

Biodegradable Cell-Seeded Nanofiber Scaffolds for Neural Repair

Central and peripheral neural injuries are traumatic and can lead to loss of motor and sensory function, chronic pain, and permanent disability. Strategies that bridge the site of injury and allow axonal regeneration promise to have a large impact on restoring quality of life for these patients. Engineered materials can be used to guide axonal growth. Specifically, nanofiber structures can mimi...

Horn-Type Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducer: Modelling and Applications

1-3 Piezoelectric Composites for High Power Ultrasonic Transducer Applications

In this paper, we demonstrated that 1-3 PZT/polymer composites, fabricated using PZT-4 ceramic and a polymer possessing a high glass transition temperature and low loss, can be used as high power ultrasonic transducer materials for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) applications. The mechanical quality factor of the 1-3 composite with 64% ceramic volume fraction is over 200. The dielectri...

Piezoelectric Transducer Modeling: with System Identification (SI) Method

System identification is the process of creating models of dynamic process from inputoutput signals. The aim of system identification can be identified as “ to find a model with adjustable parameters and then to adjust them so that the predicted output matches the measured output”. This paper presents a method of modeling and simulating with system identification to achieve the maximum fitness ...