Design and Fabrication of Aluminum Nitride Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for Air Flow Measurements

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    Abstract

    Beam-drift based flow measurement technique requires frequency matched ultrasound transmitters and receivers for determining the flow rate. Aluminum nitride (AlN) piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) suitable for such an application have been designed and fabricated. The bottom electrode is designed in such way that it reduces the stray capacitances, without degrading the piezoelectric properties of the AlN layer deposited on it. Frequency matching within a PMUT array and PMUTs fabricated across a wafer are challenging due to residual stress and membrane radius variations. A fabrication process to reduce the residual stress by optimizing the AlN layer deposition parameters, and membrane radius variations by optimizing Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) process, is developed in this work. The relative frequency variation (Δf*100/f) of the fabricated 7-element transmitter array is 0.5 %, and the variation between two receiver elements is 0.8%. Even though there is frequency variation across the wafer, PMUT transmitters and receivers within a reticle have matching frequencies and they can be utilized as transmitter-receiver pairs for flow measurement applications.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2019
    PublisherIEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
    Pages2489-2492
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-4596-9, 978-1-7281-4595-2
    ISBN (Print)978-1-7281-4597-6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 6 Oct 2019
    MoE publication typeB3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings
    Event2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Duration: 6 Oct 20199 Oct 2019

    Conference

    Conference2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityGlasgow
    Period6/10/199/10/19

    Keywords

    • OtaNano

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