TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnesium Alloy Matching Layer for PMN-PT Single Crystal Transducer Applications
AU - Guo, Feifei
AU - Wang, Yulei
AU - Huang, Zhongyuan
AU - Qiu, Weibao
AU - Zhang, Zhiqiang
AU - Wang, Zhu
AU - Dong, Jie
AU - Yang, Bin
AU - Cao, Wenwu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/10
Y1 - 2018/10
N2 - In this paper, we propose using magnesium alloy as the matching layer for the ultrasonic transducer made of 0.68 Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.32PbTiO3 (PMN-0.32PT) single crystal. The complete sets of elastic constants of AZ31B, GW83, and ZK60 magnesium alloys have been measured, which is practically a homogeneous material. The AZ31B magnesium alloy has an acoustic impedance of 10.36 MRayl, which is suitable for the development of high-performance ultrasonic transducers. A 3.5-MHz PMN-PT single crystal transducer has been designed and fabricated successfully using AZ31B magnesium alloy as the first quarter-wavelength matching layer. The -6-dB bandwidth and two-way insertion loss at the center frequency of the transducer are about 67% and 11.4 dB, respectively, much superior to the transducer fabricated using 0-3 composite matching layer. The high performance of this transducer indicates that the magnesium alloy is indeed an excellent matching layer material for ultrasonic transducer applications.
AB - In this paper, we propose using magnesium alloy as the matching layer for the ultrasonic transducer made of 0.68 Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.32PbTiO3 (PMN-0.32PT) single crystal. The complete sets of elastic constants of AZ31B, GW83, and ZK60 magnesium alloys have been measured, which is practically a homogeneous material. The AZ31B magnesium alloy has an acoustic impedance of 10.36 MRayl, which is suitable for the development of high-performance ultrasonic transducers. A 3.5-MHz PMN-PT single crystal transducer has been designed and fabricated successfully using AZ31B magnesium alloy as the first quarter-wavelength matching layer. The -6-dB bandwidth and two-way insertion loss at the center frequency of the transducer are about 67% and 11.4 dB, respectively, much superior to the transducer fabricated using 0-3 composite matching layer. The high performance of this transducer indicates that the magnesium alloy is indeed an excellent matching layer material for ultrasonic transducer applications.
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U2 - 10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2861394
DO - 10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2861394
M3 - Article
C2 - 30072319
AN - SCOPUS:85050996450
SN - 0885-3010
VL - 65
SP - 1865
EP - 1872
JO - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
JF - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
IS - 10
M1 - 8423704
ER -