磁致伸缩换能器辐射板形状对声场分布的影响

磁致伸缩换能器可作为热声制冷机的声源装置,辐射板的形状直接影响声压输出效率,从而影响制冷效果。为提高换能器工作效率、减小换能器体积,辐射板需在Terfenol-D棒的激励下产生大振幅、高频率的活塞振型。针对这一问题,应用ATILA软件分析了磁致伸缩换能器辐射板形状对谐振腔振动幅频特性的影响以及对谐振腔内声场分布的影响。结果表明:相同激励条件下,凹球面辐射板出现活塞振型时振幅最大,对应谐振腔中声压幅值最高;谐振腔端面形状为凹球面时,具有聚焦声压幅值的作用;端面形状为凹发射端-凸反射端组合的谐振腔内声压幅值最高。以上结论为合理设计辐射板、谐振腔两端面组合形状提供了参考。     

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) with isolation posts

In this paper, an improved design of a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) is presented. The design improvement aims to address the reliability issues of a CMUT and to extend the device operation beyond the contact (collapse) voltage. The major design novelty is the isolation posts in the vacuum cavities of the CMUT cells instead of full-coverage insulation layers in conventional CMUTs. This eliminates the contact voltage drifting due to charging caused by the insulation layer, and enables repeatable CMUT operation in the post-contact regime. Ultrasonic tests of the CMUTs with isolation posts (PostCMUTs) in air (electrical input impedance and capacitance vs. bias voltage) and immersion (transmission and reception) indicate acoustic performance similar to that obtained from conventional CMUTs while no undesired side effects of this new design is observed.     

Influence of the ultrasound transducer bandwidth on selection of the complementary Golay bit code length

In contrast to previously published papers [A. Nowicki, Z. Klimonda, M. Lewandowski, J. Litniewski, P.A. Lewin, I. Trots, Comparison of sound fields generated by different coded excitations – Experimental results, Ultrasonics 44 (1) (2006) 121–129; J. Litniewski, A. Nowicki, Z. Klimonda, M. Lewandowski, Sound fields for coded excitations in water and tissue: experimental approach, Ultrasound Med. Biol. 33 (4) (2007) 601–607], which examined the factors influencing the spatial resolution of coded complementary Golay sequences (CGS), this paper investigates the effect of ultrasound imaging transducer’s fractional bandwidth on the gain of the compressed echo signal for different spectral widths of the CGS. Two different bit lengths were considered, specifically one and two cycles. Three transducers having fractional bandwidth of 25%, 58% and 80% and operating at frequencies 6, 4.4 and 6 MHz, respectively were examined (one of the 6 MHz sources was focused and made of composite material). The experimental results have shown that by increasing the code length, i.e. decreasing the bandwidth, the compressed echo amplitude could be enhanced. The smaller the bandwidth was the larger was the gain; the pulse-echo sensitivity of the echo amplitude increased by 1.88, 1.62 and 1.47, for 25%, 58% and 80% bandwidths, respectively. These results indicate that two cycles bit length excitation is more suitable for use with bandwidth limited commercially available imaging transducers. Further, the time resolution is retained for transducers with two cycles excitation providing the fractional bandwidth is lower than approximately 90%. The results of this work also show that adjusting the code length allows signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) to be enhanced while using limited (less that 80%) bandwidth imaging transducers. Also, for such bandwidth limited transducers two cycles excitation would not decrease the time resolution, obtained with “conventional” spike excitation. Hence, CGS excitation could be successfully implemented with the existing, relatively narrow band imaging transducers without the need to use usually more expensive wideband, composite ones.     

一种拓宽匹配层换能器带宽的方法

本文介绍了一种拓宽匹配层换能器带宽的方法,通过单端激励以同时激发换能器的奇次和偶次谐波,以此来达到拓宽匹配层换能器带宽的目的。运用有限元软件ANSYS进行了建模分析计算,对其设计过程、测量结果作了分析介绍。样品换能器在10kHz～30kHz的频段内,发送电压响应起伏为±3.3dB。     

超声内镜换能器的应用进展

超声内镜集结了超声检查与内镜检查双重功能,可以获得腹部和胸腔内器官的高质量图像,是一种先进的医疗设备。超声内镜探头的核心部分是超声换能器。超声内镜检查需经过狭窄的消化道或内窥镜的活检通道伸进体内,由于工作环境的限制,超声内镜用换能器与普通超声成像换能器相比,工作频率更高、尺寸更小、制作工艺更精密。本文从超声内镜所用换能器的外形结构、内部组成、工作模式及材料等角度,对目前国内外超声内镜换能器的应用进展情况进行了描述,并根据超声内镜换能器的现状对未来的发展趋势进行了分析。     

Evaluation of uncertainty in measurements—problems and tools

The ISO “Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement” (GUM) establishes a unified method for evaluating and stating measurement uncertainties that has been accepted by nearly all calibration services and most test co-operations in all parts of the world. In measurements of mechanical quantities, such as acceleration and derived motion quantities, the application of the GUM may be difficult and very time-consuming unless some possibilities of simplification are made use of. After a brief introduction to the basic procedure specified in the GUM for the calculation of the measurement uncertainty, a survey of the problems typically encountered in uncertainty calculations when, for example, vibrations are measured or accelerometers calibrated by laser interferometry is given. It is shown how a model function of simple structure can be established for the usually complex relationship between the output quantity (e.g. sensitivity of an accelerometer), the quantity to be measured (e.g. acceleration) and various influence quantities (noise, transverse motion, base strain, etc.). Among other things, non-linear effects such as the influences of distortion, hum and noise can be properly taken into account.     

换能器的阻抗匹配设计

本文从基本的电学原理，详细推导出变压吕的互耦阻抗及变压器的阻抗变换关系，提出了换能器阻抗匹配较理想的设计方法，在工程设计中较好的实用价值。     

低频宽带大功率镶拼圆管换能器

本文介绍了在研制由镶拼圆管组成的低频、宽带、大功率换能器时，为民宽频带所有取的设计方案、制作和实验结果。     

Gaussian-DPSM (G-DPSM) and Element Source Method (ESM) modifications to DPSM for ultrasonic field modeling

In the last few years, Distributed Point Source Method (DPSM) a mesh-free semi-analytical technique has been developed. In spite of its many advantages, one shortcoming of the conventional DPSM method is that the field obtained by conventional DPSM method needs to be scaled to match the theoretical solutions. Two modification techniques called Gaussian-DPSM (G-DPSM) and Element Source Method (ESM) are developed here to avoid the scaling need. G-DPSM technique introduces additional fictitious point sources around every parent point source. Gaussian weight functions determine the strength of these additional fictitious point sources that are denoted as child point sources. ESM replaces discrete point sources used in the conventional DPSM by continuous sources. In the ESM formulation individual point sources are denoted as nodes. Special elements are formed on the boundary by connecting these nodes. The source strength inside the element can vary linearly or non-linearly depending on the order of the interpolation function used inside the element. Results generated by both these methods are compared with the conventional DPSM solution and analytical solution. It is shown that the ultrasonic field in front of the transducer computed by G-DPSM and ESM matches very well with the theory without using any scaling factor.