A Single-chip AlScN PMUTs-on-CMOS hydrophone
This work presents a minute single-chip piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs)-on-complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-based hydrophone with high receiving sensitivities and low noise. The system is based on three different Sc9.5%Al90.5%N PMUTs geometries: (a) square wi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:294987 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/294987 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1109/JSEN.2024.3401455 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Hydrophone Micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) hydrophone Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) PMUTs-on-complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) Receiving sensitivity (SR) |
| Sumario: | This work presents a minute single-chip piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs)-on-complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-based hydrophone with high receiving sensitivities and low noise. The system is based on three different Sc9.5%Al90.5%N PMUTs geometries: (a) square with an 80μ m side, (b) rectangular with a dimension of 60×40μ m, and (c) annular with an outer diameter of 80μ m which allows to carry out acoustic measurements at very close distances from the transducer under test. Each device is monolithically integrated with a CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) amplifier with a gain of 25 dB. The first hydrophone prototype was validated in water where two commercial hydrophones from ONDA (HGL-0085 and HNC-0200) were used as references. The experimental results give mean receiving sensitivities of -234 dB re 1 V/ μ Pa (equivalent to 1.9 V/MPa), -234.6 dB re 1 V/ μ Pa (equivalent to 1.86 V/MPa), and -238.3 dB re 1 V/ μ Pa (equivalent to 1.22 V/MPa) for (a)-(c), respectively. These results demonstrate the high performance of the presented PMUTs-on-CMOS to be used in a miniaturized hydrophone for characterizing high-frequency ultrasound transducers. |
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