Efeitos da polarização não-uniforme de ceramicas piezoeletricas no campo de Transdutores de ultra-Som

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

The objective of apodization (non uniform polarization) was to obtain piezoelectric ceramic discs that would vibrate more intensively in the central region than in the edge, to produce ultrasound transducers with acoustic fields where the contributions of the edge waves were minimal, reducing diffraction effects. A program to implement the Finite Element Method (FEM) was used to simulate the electrical polarization field for a ceramic disc. A spherical electrode formatted this electrical field. We tried to determine the best radius of the electrode for the apodization process, the distribution of the electrical field vectors inside the ceramic disc, and to describe the intensity of the apodized electrical field by a polynomial equation. FEM was also used to simulate the vibrational behavior of apodized ceramic discs. The results of this work have shown that it is possible to modify the polarization using a spherical electrode touching the superior face of the ceramic disc, which previous electrode was removed. PZT5A ceramic discs were apodized and used to construct ultrasound transducers. It has also been constructed ultrasound transducers with conventional ceramic discs, in order to compare their performance to that of apodized transducers. The mapping of the acoustic fields of the constructed transducers has shown that the fields generated by the apodized transducers have extended range from the transducer face, compared to that of the non-apodized transducers, due to the lesser contributions of the edges waves reducing the acoustical diffraction effects

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polarização (eletricidade) ceramica eletronica transdutores ultra-sonicos

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