Silicon micromachined ultrasonic devices have been fabricated using a CMOS-compatible process. Devices of up to 1 mm in size have been tested, with silicon nitride membranes of 1 μm and 2 μm thickness. The work has investigated the response of these ultrasonic receivers, as a function of membrane thickness and lateral dimensions. It is shown that the resultant surface micromachined transducers can operate over a wide bandwidth in air, without the resonant behaviour associated with previous devices
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Ultrasonics Symposium, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE
(Volume:2
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Date of Conference: 1998