Journal of Advanced Dielectrics (Aug 2022)

Performance enhancement of ultrasonic transducer made of textured PNN-PZT ceramic

  • Lang Bian,
  • Ke Zhu,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Jinpeng Ma,
  • Jinhui Fan,
  • Xudong Qi,
  • Guicheng Jiang,
  • Bo Zhao,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Bin Yang,
  • Wenwu Cao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010135X22440039
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 04

Abstract

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In this paper, 0.36Pb(Ni[Formula: see text]Nb[Formula: see text])O3–0.24PbZrO3–0.40PbTiO3(PNN-PZT) ceramic was prepared, and texture engineering was performed on this PNN-PZT ceramic to improve its electromechanical properties and temperature stability. Single element ultrasonic transducers were prepared using PNN-PZT, PNN-PZT textured ceramics, and their performance were evaluated and compared using a PZT-5H ceramic based transducer as the benchmark. It is shown that the sensitivity and bandwidth of the PNN-PZT textured ceramic-based transducer are much superior to regular PNN-PZT ceramic and PZT-5H ceramic based transducers.

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