Fabrication and performance of endoscopic ultrasound radial arrays based on PMN-PT single crystal/epoxy 1-3 composite

IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2011 Feb;58(2):477-84. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1825.

Abstract

In this paper, 0.7Pb(Mg(¹/₃)Nb(²/₃)O₃-0.3PbTiO₃ (PMN-PT) single crystal/epoxy 1/3 composite was used as the active material of the endoscopic ultrasonic radial array transducer, because this composite exhibited ultrahigh electromechanical coupling coefficient (k(t) = 0.81%), very low mechanical quality factor (Q(m) = 11) and relatively low acoustic impedance (Z(t) = 12 MRayls). A 6.91 MHz PMN-PT/epoxy 1/3 composite radial array transducer with 64 elements was tested in a pulseecho response measurement. The -6-dB bandwidth of the composite array transducer was 102%, which was ~30% larger than that of traditional lead zirconate titanate array transducer. The two-way insertion loss was found to be -32.3 dB. The obtained results show that this broadband array transducer is promising for acquiring high-resolution endoscopic ultrasonic images in many clinical applications.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Electric Impedance
  • Endosonography / instrumentation*
  • Epoxy Compounds / chemistry*
  • Equipment Design
  • Lead / chemistry
  • Niobium / chemistry
  • Oxides / chemistry
  • Titanium / chemistry
  • Transducers*

Substances

  • Epoxy Compounds
  • Oxides
  • Niobium
  • Lead
  • Titanium