• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.207-216
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• 1999

A phased array is a multi-element piezoelectric device whose elements are individually excited by electric pulses at programmed delay time. One of the advantages of using phased array in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) application over conventional ultrasonic transducers is their great maneuverability of ultrasonic beam. There are some parameters such as the number and the size of the piezoelectric elements and the inter-element spacing of the elements to design phased array transducer. In this study, the characteristic of ultrasonic beam for phased array transducer due to the variation of the number of elements has been simulated for ultrasonic SH-wave on the basis of Huygen's principle. Ultrasonic beam directivity and focusing due to the change of time delay of each element were discussed due to the change of the number of piezoelectric elements. It was found that ultrasonic beam was much more spreaded and hence its sound pressure was decreased as steering angle of ultrasonic beam was increased. In addition, the ability of ultrasonic bean focusing decreased gradually with the increase of focal length at the same piezoelectric elements. However, the ability of beam focusing was improved as the number of consisting elements was increased.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.329-336
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• 2003

Intra-Vascular Ultra-Sound (IVUS) transducers were developed for the application to diagnose coronary diseases. The transducer consists of 32 piezoelectric elements with a front insulation layer and a polymeric acoustic backing layer on a hollow alumina tube. The optimal geometrical structure of the transducer was designed through theoretical analysis of radiation patterns of the transducer. Samples of the IVUS transducers of the diameter of 3㎜ were fabricated to illustrate the design scheme. For the piezoelectric elements, 2-2 mode piezocomposite materials were employed. Experimental performance of the transducers showed good agreement with the design results, which verified feasibility of the transducer for IVUS applications.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.199-207
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• 2013

In this paper, a $64{\times}8$ channel 1.75D ultrasonic transducer made of piezoelectric single crystals was designed, fabricated, and evaluated. First, a structure of the transducer was selected to be suitable for wiring on a planar array, and components were fabricated to correspond to the structure. Detailed structure of the transducer was designed through finite element analyses. As main performance factors, the crosstalk between neighboring elements was reduced through the control of kerf width and material, and desired frequency bandwidth of the transducer was achieved by designing the optimal thicknesses of the piezoelectric single crystal and matching layers. An experimental prototype of the transducer was fabricated following the design, and its performance was measured. Then the experimental results were compared with those of the finite element analysis, which led to the evaluation of the transducer developed in this work.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.364-364
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• 2008

유한요소해석을 통하여 수도계량기용 삽입형 초음파 유량계 압전 트랜스듀서의 설계를 실시하고 이를 평가하였다. 상용 해석프로그램인 PzFlex를 사용하여 센서의 transient 해석을 실시하였다. 이를 통해 각 구성부품의 재질 및 형상 변수를 결정하였다. 이를 기준으로 트랜스듀서를 제작하였으며, 두께모드 중심주파수가 1.2MHz가 되도록 직경 10mm의 압전소자를 이용하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 $25^{\circ}$의 방사각으로 음향파가 발생되도록 트랜스듀서를 설계, 제작한 후, 트랜스듀서의 전기적, 기계적 특성을 평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.445-446
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• 2016

초음파 트랜스듀서는 다양한 산업 분야에 응용되고 있다. 초음파 트랜스듀서는 압전 소자에서 발생하는 초음파를 이용하는데, 본 논문은 알루미늄 용탕 처리에 적용하였다. 알루미늄 용탕 처리용 초음파 트랜스듀서는 고주파인 공진주파수를 이용하여 동작하게 된다. 초음파 트랜스듀서는 압전 소자의 온도 및 부하에 따라 공진 주파수가 이동하게 되는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문은 알루미늄 용탕을 처리할 때 발생하는 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 LLCC 공진형 컨버터를 이용하여 공진주파수를 추적 및 일정한 전력을 공급하는 제어 방식을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1997.06a
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• pp.53-56
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• 1997

Tonpilz 압전변환기에 관하여 유한요소법을 사용하여 공기중의 동특성 해석과 수중의 방사임피던스를 해석하였다. 공기중에서 트랜스듀서의 구조를 변화시키면서 입력 어드미턴스 특성과 진동모드를 해석하여 압전변환기를 모델링하였다. 음향 윈도우를 압전변환기 전면에 부착한 후 유한요소법(FEM)에 의하여 매질의 영향을 고려한 입력어드미턴스 특성을 해석하였으며, 또한 방사임피던스 계산 루틴을 추가하여 무한 배플의 경계조건하에서 방사 임피던스를 해석하였다. 공기중과 수중에서의 해석을 통하여 Tonpilz 압전변환기 단일 소자의 구조 변경 및 기계 부재의 추가등에 따라 변동하는 변환기의 특성 및 방사 임피던스를 해석하므로서 평면 배열형 음향 트랜스듀서의 설계에 필요한 파라메터를 구할 수있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.393-401
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• 2013

In this paper, a $48{\times}64$ channel 2D array ultrasonic transducer with piezoelectric single crystals was designed, fabricated, and evaluated. Structure of the transducer was chosen to facilitate the electric connection on the planar array, and then components were fabricated in accordance with the structure. Detailed structure of the transducer was designed through finite element analyses. In order to improve the performance of the transducer, the crosstalk between adjacent elements was reduced through the control of kerf width and material, and the target frequency bandwidth was achieved through optimal design of the thickness of the single crystal and matching layers. After fabricating a prototype of the transducer according to the design and measuring its characteristics, the results were compared with those of finite element analyses to evaluate the performance of the developed transducer.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.381-384
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• 2002

이종 매질에서 초음파전달은 각 매질의 음향임피던스에 영향을 받는다. 초음파진동자로 사용되는 압전소자와 매질로 가장 많이 사용되는 물은 음향임피던스 차이가 크므로 경계면에서 투과율이 감소한다. 이를 개선하기 위해 압전소자와 물 사이에 음향정합층을 삽입하여 사용한다. 정합층은 1 layer로 사용되는 경우도 있지만, 넓은 대역폭을 요구하는 분야에서는 2 layer가 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 1 layer 정합층를 갖는 초음파 트랜스듀서에 대해 시간영역에서 해석하는 기법을 분석하였으며, 이를 근거로 매질 사이의 물리적 특성을 고려하여 2 layer 정합층을 갖는 초음파트랜스듀서를 해석하였다. 해석결과 2 layer 정합층일 경우 1 layer에 비해 공진주파수에서의 이득은 감소하였으나 대역폭이 증가됨을 알 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.278-286
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• 2022

In this study, a 33-mode Free-Flooded Ring (FFR) transducer was designed to apply piezoelectric single crystal PIN-PMN-PT, which has high piezoelectric constants and electromechanical coupling coefficient. To ensure low-frequency high transmitting sensitivity characteristics with a small size of FFR transducer, the commercial FFR transducer based on piezoelectric ceramics was compared. To develop the FFR transducer with broadband characteristics, a piezoelectric segmented ring structure inserted with inactive elements was applied. The oil-filled structure was applied to minimize the change of acoustic characteristics of the ring transducer. It was verified that the transmitting voltage response, underwater impedance, and beam pattern matched the finite element numerical simulation results well through an acoustic test. The difference in the transmitting voltage response between the measured and the simulated results is about 1.3 dB in cavity mode and about 0.3 dB in radial mode. The fabricated FFR transducer had a higher transmitting voltage response compared to the commercial transducer, but the diameter was reduced by about 17 %. From this study, it was confirmed that the feasibility of a single crystal-applied FFR transducer with compact size and high-power characteristics. The effectiveness of the performance prediction by simulation was also confirmed.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.286-294
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• 2001

In this study, 3-D underwater object recognition using the self-made 3-3 type composite ultrasonic transducer and modified SOFM(Self Organizing Feature Map) neural network are investigated. Properties of the self-made 3-3 type composite specimens are satisfied considerably with requirements as an underwater ultrasonic transducer's materials. 3-D underwater all object's recognition rates obtained from both the training data and testing data in different objects, such as a rectangular block, regular triangular block, square block and cylinderical block, were 100% and 94.0%, respectively. All object's recognition rates are obtained by utilizing the self-made 3-3 type composite transducer and SOFM neural network. From the object recognition rates, it could be seen that an ultrasonic transducer fabricated with the self-made 3-3 type composite resonator will be able to have application for the underwater object recognition.