Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 492-501Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2022.3181157
Keywords
Acoustics; Transducers; Reflectivity; Impedance; Capacitors; Bandwidth; Integrated circuit modeling; Acoustic reflectivity; ASIC; array uniformity; capacitive cancellation; capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT); crosstalk; HV pulser; impedance matching; negative capacitance (NC); ultrasound transceiver (US-TRX)
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [R21 NS108391, R37 CA239039]
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This paper presents an active impedance matching scheme to optimize electrical power transfer and acoustic reflectivity in ultrasound transducers. Leveraging negative capacitance-based impedance matching improves bandwidth and electrical power transfer, while reducing acoustic reflection and crosstalk.
This paper presents an active impedance matching scheme that tries to optimize electrical power transfer and acoustic reflectivity in ultrasound transducers. Leveraging negative capacitance-based impedance matching would potentially improve the bandwidth and electrical power transfer while minimizing acoustic reflection of transducer elements and improve uniformity while reducing acoustic crosstalk of transducer arrays. A 16-element transceiver front-end is designed which employs an element-level active capacitive impedance cancellation scheme using an element-level negative impedance converter. The ASIC fabricated in 180-nm HVBCD technology provides high-voltage pulses up to 60 V consuming 3.6 mW and occupying 2.5 mm(2). The front-end ASIC is used with a 1-D capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) array and its acoustical reflectivity reduction and imaging capabilities have successfully been demonstrated through pulse-echo measurements and acoustic imaging experiments.
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