title: Dynamic behavior of the circular membrane of an electrostatic microphone: effect of holes in the backing electrode.
abstract: Today, several applications require using electrostatic microphones in environments and/or in frequency ranges, which are significantly different from those they were designed for. When low uncertainties on the behavior of acoustic fields, generated or measured by these transducers, are required, the displacement field of the diaphragm of the transducers (which can be highly nonuniform in the highest frequency range) must be characterized with an appropriate accuracy. An analytical approach, which leads to results depending on the location of the holes in the backing electrode (i.e., depending on the azimuthal coordinate) not available until now (regarding the displacement field of the membrane in the highest frequency range, up to 100 kHz), is presented here. The holes and the slit surrounding the electrode are considered as localized sources described by their volume velocity in the propagation equation governing the pressure field in the air gap (not by nonuniform boundary conditions on the surface of the backing electrode as usual). Experimental results, obtained from measurements of the displacement field of the membrane using a laser scanning vibrometer, are presented and compared to the theoretical results.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Maine, UMR CNRS 6613, Université du Maine, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72 085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lavergne
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Durand
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bruneau
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Joly
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D000388:Air; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004566:Electrodes; D004867:Equipment Design; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009038:Motion; D011312:Pressure; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013016:Sound; D055672:Static Electricity; D013997:Time Factors; D014159:Transducers; D014732:Vibration
chemical_list: D008567:Membranes, Artificial