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http://dx.doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2008.27.5.215

Experimental Investigation of Characteristics Change by Kerf-Fill Material between Arrayed Elements of a Piezoelectric Transducer  

Kim, Jung-Soon (동명대학교 멀티미디어공학과)
Kim, Moo-Joon (부경대학교 물리학과)
Ha, Kang-Lyeol (부경대학교 물리학과)
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Ultrasonic transducer; Piezoelectric ceramic; Linear array; Arrayed elements; Kerf-fill material;
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