• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.215-220
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• 2008

The kerfs between arrayed piezoelectric elements in a medical ultrasonic transducer or a piezoelectric composite transducer are generally filled by polymeric materials. The boundary condition of the elements for lateral mode vibration is changed according to the kerf-filling materials, so that the resonance frequency for longitudinal mode of the transducer is also varied. In this study, to investigate the resonance frequency variation for an arrayed transducer experimentally, the piezoelectric vibration elements of $14mm{\times}0.22mm{\times}0.44mm$ were fabricated and those were linearly arrayed. And, the resonance frequencies were measured for three cases of kerf-filling condition, non-filling and two different kinds of epoxy filling. Conclusively, it is confirmed that the resonant frequency variation shows the similar tendency with the theoretical one for the longitudinal mode.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.411-414
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• 2000

음의 비선형 전파가 일어나기 쉬운 정도를 나타내는 파라메타로서 기본파 진폭과 제2고조파 진폭의 비로써 매질의 물리적 성질에만 관계하는 파라메타 B/A가 있다(1)(2). 종래 B/A파라메타 측정은 대부분 광대역의 초음파 트랜스듀서 혹은 공진 주파수가 다른 복수의 트랜스듀서를 이용하여 왔다(3). 본 연구에서는 협대역의 단일 트랜스듀서를 이용하여 B/A파라메타를 효율적으로 측정 할 수 있는 전용 초음파 트랜스듀서를 제안하였다. 그 방법으로 특성이 동일한 두 장의 압전체를 적층시키고, 그 중 한 장의 압전체에 전기적인 용량을 접속하여 기본 공진 모드 및 기본 공진 모드의 두 배의 주파수에 해당되는 조화파 모드를 발생시킬 수 있도록 하였다 이것을 시험 제작하여 그 특성을 이론 및 실험적으로 해석한 결과 음향 매질의 비선형 파라메타인 B/A의 측정에 적용 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.315-318
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• 2004

이식형 인공중이에 있어 그 특성은 트랜스듀서의 성능에 따라 크게 좌우된다. 따라서 성능이 우수한 인공중이 제작을 위해서는 트랜스듀서의 주파수 특성 및 구동 성능이 우수해야 하고 인체 내 이식을 위해서는 그 크기가 작아야 한다. 본 연구에서는 인공중이용 소형 트랜스듀서로서 단결정 압전 재료인 PMN-PT를 이용한 적층형 액츄에이터를 제안하였다. 또한 제안된 모델을 두께 0.2mm를 갖는 $1mm{\times}1mm$ 크기의 PMN-PT 시편을 14층으로 쌓아 2.8mm 두께로 제작하였고, 이때 절연층으로 P.R을 사용하였다. 제작된 트랜스듀서의 성능은 Impedance Spectrum, 구동변위 측정 및 구동력의 계산을 통해 평가하였다. 이를 통해 PMN-PT를 재료로 사용한 적층형 액츄에이터의 성능이 기존의 PZT를 재료로 사용한 Bimorph 액츄에이터보다 훨씬 뛰어날 뿐만 아니라 청각 장애가 심한 고도난청자들에게 적용이 가능한 이식형 인공중이용 트랜스듀서로서 충분한 성능을 가지고 있음을 입증하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.363-369
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• 2009

In this paper, an estimation method is presented to determine the equivalent circuit model of an underwater acoustic piezoelectric transducer with multiple resonant modes. A fitness function that includes the coupled resonant effects is proposed to minimize an error between the measured impedance of the transducer and the calculated impedance of the equivalent model. Unknown parameters of the equivalent circuit are estimated by using PSO algorithm. The proposed method is applied to an example transducer of the sandwich type with 3 resonances in the frequency band of interest. The analytical impedance of the estimated equivalent circuit model is compared with the measured impedance of the transducer and the validity of proposed method is verified.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.48-57
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 순수 압전세라믹에 비해 동등이상의 압전특성을 가지면서도 음향임 피던스가 월등히 낮은 1-3형 압전복합체를 이용한 탐촉자의 개발에 관해 연구하였다. 압전 복합재료 탐촉자는 그 자체만으로 측정대상체와의 음향임피던스 차를 최소화하여 별도의 정 합층을 필요로 하지 않는 특징을 가진다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 복합재료에 사용되는 고분자 재료의 물성값 설계와, 압전세라믹과의 적절한 배합구조와 형상의 결정에 설계의 주 안점을 두었다. 그 결과를 바탕으로 압전복합체 초음파 트랜스듀서 시작품을 제작하고 그 성능을 분석하였으며, 이론적인 시뮬레이션 결과와의 비교를 통해 설계이론의 타당성을 검 증하였다. 본 연구에서는 수립되어진 압전복합체 트랜스듀서의 설계 및 제작기법은 향후, 측 정대상체와의 정합을 위해 정합층에 대해 복잡한 설계 및 제작공정을 거쳐야하는 다양한 탐 촉자 개발에 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.271-278
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• 2008

The electro-mechanical characteristics were theoretically analyzed for the wideband ultrasonic transducer made of non-uniform thickness piezoelectric vibrator. This paper proposes a combination of exponential functions which describes the thickness variation along the length of the vibrator to derive the input admittance and power transfer function of the transducer. The bandwidth and the power transfer function of the transducer were investigated while the lateral shape of the vibrator changes. The results showed there is an optimum shape for the wideband characteristics of the transducer, and the bandwidth has increased up to over 100% as the ratio of minimum value of thickness to maximum value decreases. However, the power transfer function had a downward trend as the ratio of thickness decreases. Also we confirmed that even though the value of transfer function increases as the length of the piezoelectric vibrator increases, the shape providing wideband characteristics is very limited. It means that precision processing is required to manufacturing a wideband ultrasonic transducer with high efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.43 no.4 s.310
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• pp.30-34
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• 2006

To enhance the performance of the piezoelectric transducer for the transit-time type ultrasonic sensors, we investigated and verified the effect of it's size and raw materials using FEM(Finite Element Method) technique. Radiation angle of $25^{\circ}$ could be realized through the control of the matching layer's shape and its raw materials. Based on the results, the flowmeter is fabricated and characterized in real application, which thereby proves good sensitivity of 10 times better than current commercial one.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2007

Recently, implantable middle ear hearing devices (IMEHDs) have been developed to overcome the problems of conventional hearing aids. In this paper, a piezoelectric floating mass transducer (PFMT) based on a PZT multi-layered actuator has been designed and implemented using the approximated mechanical vibration modeling for the PFMT and the analysis of vibration characteristics through the transformation into the equivalent electrical model. The implemented PFMT has been attached to the ossicle of a human cadaver's temporal bone and the in-vitro experiment has been performed. Through the experimental results, it has been verified that the PFMT applied into our developed implantable middle ear hearing device can be used for an IMEHD transducer.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.102-110
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• 2014

The effect of a bonding layer on the performance of a quarter-wave (${\lambda}/4$) mode PVDF ultrasound transducer having not only a piezoelectric layer but also a non-piezoelectric layer between two electrodes was analyzed. The equivalent circuit of a transmission line model by Kikuchi et al.[Sound of IEICE, 55-A, 331-338 (1981)] was introduced for the analysis. The validity of the model was confirmed by comparison with a KLM model for three postulated adhesion cases of a $80{\mu}m$ thick piezoelectric PVDF film to a copper (Cu) backer. The pulse-echo responses of five PVDF transducers, each fabricated with a different thickness ($5{\mu}m{\sim}20{\mu}m$) of the bonding layer, were measured and the results were compared with those by simulation. The two results were in good agreement with each other and it was noted that the effect of the bonding layer on the performance of the transducer could be analyzed by the Kikuchi model. In detail, the $20{\mu}m$ bonding layer decreased the center frequency and the bandwidth by about 19.7 % and 25.0 %, respectively, and increased the insertion loss by 57.2 %.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.252-257
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• 2016

Dust-collecting behavior of tonpilz transducer was simulated with finite-element-method (FEM) software. In order to optimize the performance of tonpilz transducer, the shape factors including the thickness of head mass, the diameter of tail mass and the depth of bolt were analyzed as variables. As a vibrating energy source, the piezoelectric materials was also tested with PZT-4 and two kinds of piezoelectric single crystals. The output power of the transducer was maximized with the shape factors and then the behavior of the dust-collection was demonstrated with the multi-physics software, COMSOL.