Bimorph Lithium Niobate Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
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| author | Chulukhadze, Vakhtang Liu, Zihuan Yao, Ziqian Matto, Lezli Hsu, Tzu-Hsuan Ravi, Nishanth Niu, Xiaoyu Liao, Michael E. Goorsky, Mark S. Hall, Neal Lu, Ruochen |
| author_facet | Chulukhadze, Vakhtang Liu, Zihuan Yao, Ziqian Matto, Lezli Hsu, Tzu-Hsuan Ravi, Nishanth Niu, Xiaoyu Liao, Michael E. Goorsky, Mark S. Hall, Neal Lu, Ruochen |
| contents | Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) are widely utilized in applications that demand mechanical resilience, thermal stability, and compact form factors. Recent efforts have sought to demonstrate that single-crystal lithium niobate (LN) is a promising PMUT material platform, offering high electromechanical coupling (k2) and bidirectional performance. In addition, advances in LN film transfer technology have enabled high quality periodically poled piezoelectric films (P3F), facilitating a bimorph piezoelectric stack without intermediate electrodes. In this work, we showcase a bimorph PMUT incorporating a mechanically robust, 20 $μ$m thick P3F LN active layer. We establish the motivation for LN PMUTs through a material comparison, followed by extensive membrane geometry optimization and subsequent enhancement of the PMUT's k2. We demonstrate a 775 kHz flexural mode device with a quality factor (Q) of 200 and an extracted k2 of 6.4\%, yielding a high transmit efficiency of 65 nm/V with a mechanically robust active layer. We leverage the high performance to demonstrate extreme-temperature resilience, showcasing stable device operation up to 600 $^\circ$C and survival up to 900 $^\circ$C, highlighting LN's potential as a resilient PMUT platform. |
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| spellingShingle | Bimorph Lithium Niobate Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers Chulukhadze, Vakhtang Liu, Zihuan Yao, Ziqian Matto, Lezli Hsu, Tzu-Hsuan Ravi, Nishanth Niu, Xiaoyu Liao, Michael E. Goorsky, Mark S. Hall, Neal Lu, Ruochen Materials Science Systems and Control Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) are widely utilized in applications that demand mechanical resilience, thermal stability, and compact form factors. Recent efforts have sought to demonstrate that single-crystal lithium niobate (LN) is a promising PMUT material platform, offering high electromechanical coupling (k2) and bidirectional performance. In addition, advances in LN film transfer technology have enabled high quality periodically poled piezoelectric films (P3F), facilitating a bimorph piezoelectric stack without intermediate electrodes. In this work, we showcase a bimorph PMUT incorporating a mechanically robust, 20 $μ$m thick P3F LN active layer. We establish the motivation for LN PMUTs through a material comparison, followed by extensive membrane geometry optimization and subsequent enhancement of the PMUT's k2. We demonstrate a 775 kHz flexural mode device with a quality factor (Q) of 200 and an extracted k2 of 6.4\%, yielding a high transmit efficiency of 65 nm/V with a mechanically robust active layer. We leverage the high performance to demonstrate extreme-temperature resilience, showcasing stable device operation up to 600 $^\circ$C and survival up to 900 $^\circ$C, highlighting LN's potential as a resilient PMUT platform. |
| title | Bimorph Lithium Niobate Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers |
| topic | Materials Science Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07718 |