• Journal of Inorganic Materials
  • Vol. 37, Issue 5, 507 (2022)
Junting TIAN1, Xiaobing LI1、*, Weiyan DING1, Shengdong NIE1, and Zhu LIANG2
Author Affiliations
  • 11. School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 22. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
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    DOI: 10.15541/jim20210282 Cite this Article
    Junting TIAN, Xiaobing LI, Weiyan DING, Shengdong NIE, Zhu LIANG. Fabrication of 1-3 Piezocomposites via Soft Mold Method for High-frequency Ultrasound Transducer[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2022, 37(5): 507 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The high-frequency ultrasonic technology has been widely used for the fine structures medical imaging of skin, eye and vessel as its high spatial resolution. 1-3 piezocomposite plays an important part in the high frequency transducer owing to the excellent electromechanical coupling properties of this material even at high frequency. However, its industrial applications were limited by the inefficient fabrication methods and expensive equipment, such as mechanical cutting-filling and plasma/laser etching. In this work, a low-cost and novel soft mold method was developed to fabricate 1-3 piezoelectric composites with high electromechanical coupling coefficient kt for high frequency ultrasound transducers. The process of soft mold filling, hot-pressed sintering PZT pillars and epoxy curing was ruly carried out. Then, a series of samples with different thicknesses were fabricated and characterized. It demonstrates that the fabricated PZT pillars with pure rhombohedral phase are homogeneous. Besides, the length to diameter ratio of sintered pillars is 10 : 1 and the kt of the 1-3 piezocomposite reaches as high as 64% for the 30-50 MHz high frequency transducer. The result indicates that the soft mold method is an economical and effective way to fabricate the 1-3 piezoelectric composites for medical and biological imaging in high frequency ultrasound applications.
    Junting TIAN, Xiaobing LI, Weiyan DING, Shengdong NIE, Zhu LIANG. Fabrication of 1-3 Piezocomposites via Soft Mold Method for High-frequency Ultrasound Transducer[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2022, 37(5): 507
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