title: Broadband and high sensitive time-of-flight diffraction ultrasonic transducers based on PMNT/epoxy 1-3 piezoelectric composite.
abstract: 5-6 MHz PMNT/epoxy 1-3 composites were prepared by a modified dice-and-fill method. They exhibit excellent properties for ultrasonic transducer applications, such as ultrahigh thickness electromechanical coupling coefficient k(t) (85.7%), large piezoelectric coefficient d33 (1209 pC/N), and relatively low acoustic impedance Z (1.82 × 107 kg/(m2·s)). Besides, two types of Time-of-Flight Diffraction (TOFD) ultrasonic transducers have been designed, fabricated, and characterized, which have different matching layer schemes with the acoustic impedance of 4.8 and 5.7 × 106 kg/(m2·s), respectively. In the detection on a backwall of 12.7 mm polystyrene, the former exhibits higher detectivity, the relative pulse-echo sensitivity and -6 dB relative bandwidth are -21.93 dB and 102.7%, respectively, while the later exhibits broader bandwidth, the relative pulse-echo sensitivity and -6 dB relative bandwidth are -24.08 dB and 117.3%, respectively. These TOFD ultrasonic transducers based on PMNT/epoxy 1-3 composite exhibit considerably improved performance over the commercial PZT/epoxy 1-3 composite TOFD ultrasonic transducer.
authors: Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215 Chengbei Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China. liudxu@outlook.com.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. liudxu@outlook.com.
authors: Dongxu
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authors: Liu
authors: Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215 Chengbei Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China. yue.qingwen@student.sic.ac.cn.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. yue.qingwen@student.sic.ac.cn.
authors: Qingwen
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authors: Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215 Chengbei Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China. dengjie@student.sic.ac.cn.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. dengjie@student.sic.ac.cn.
authors: Ji
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authors: Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215 Chengbei Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China. liudxu@outlook.com.
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authors: Lin
authors: Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215 Chengbei Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China. lxbing@mail.sic.ac.cn.
authors: Xiaobing
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authors: Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215 Chengbei Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China. dwn@mail.sic.ac.cn.
authors: Wenning
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authors: Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215 Chengbei Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China. wang1972wang@hotmail.com.
authors: Xi'an
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authors: Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215 Chengbei Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China. xyzhao@mail.sic.ac.cn.
authors: Xiangyong
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authors: Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215 Chengbei Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China. hsluo@mail.sic.ac.cn.
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