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 Thursday, 7 June 2018                                                                                                                                           

 08:45   Registration

 09:15   Welcome : Dominique Certon, GREMAN UMR7347, Tours university, CNRS, INSA Centre-Val de Loire 

 

Applications 1 - Chair : Hayrettin Koymen 

 09:30   Invited paper - VERMON company 

N. Sénégond, D. Gross, T. Matéo, M. Cheppe, L. Pasquet, P. Vince, C. Meynier & An Nguyen-Dinh

 

Vermon’s CMUT development: toward industrial MEMS transducers 

 10:00   Reza Pakdaman Zangabad1, Gijs Van Soest1, A.F.W. Van Der Steen1,2,3

Coded Excitation Imaging for a CMUT-based Side Looking Intravascular Ultrasound System

1 Biomedical Engineering Department, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands ; 2 Department of Imaging Science and Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands ; 3 Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China 

 10:20    W.A. N’Djina, C. Bawieca, G. Bouchouxa, N. Sénégondb, N. Guillenc, J.Y. Chapelona

Planar CMUT annular-array with integrated imaging for ultrasound-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound

aLabTAU, INSERM, Centre Léon Bérard, Université Lyon 1, Univ Lyon, F-69003, Lyon, France ;  b Vermon, Tours, 37038, France ; c EDAP TMS, Vaulx-en-Velin, 69120, France 

 10:40     Break  

 

Processing, fabrication, materials - Chair : Erik Vilain Thomsen 

 11:10   J. Lascauda, T. Defforgea, L. Colina, M. Perroteaub, C. Meynierb, D. Alquiera, G. Gautiera and D. Certona 

Benefits of porous silicon layer on the Lamb wave propagation in the substrate of CMUT-based linear arrays 

aUniversité de Tours, GREMAN UMR7347, CNRS, INSA-CVL, 16 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 37071 Tours, Cedex 2, France ; bVERMON, S.A, 180 Rue du General Renault 37038 Tours, France 

 11:30    I.Lucarini1, A.Minotti1, F. Maita1, A. Pecora1, A. S. Savoia3 , Aditi2, R. Mukhiya2 and L.Maiolo1  

Design, fabrication and characterization of SU-8 Polymer-based CMUT for developing potentially flexible ultrasonic devices 

1IMM-CNR, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 - Rome (Italy) ; 2CSIR-CEERI, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani-333031 – Rajastan (India) ; 3 Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Department of Engineering, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146-Rome (Italy)  

 11:50    Martin Lind Ommen, Erik Vilain Thomsen 

Reduced cavity pressure in CMUTs: Is a wafer bonder necessary?

Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark 

 12:10    Zeyu Chen2, Xian Song2, Yang Yang2, Yong Chen2 and Qifa Zhou .1,2*

Novel 3D printing technology for piezoelectric ultrasound transducer application

1Roski Eye Institute, 2School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA 

 12:30     Lunch  

 

Fundamentals 1 - Chair : Abdullah Atalar 

 14:00   Evren F. Arkan1, F. Levent Degertekin1

Analysis and Design of High Frequency CMUT Imaging Arrays in Non-Collapsed Mode

George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 

 14:20    Mathias Engholm1, Andrew Tweedie2, Kevin Chan2, and Erik Vilain Thomsen1

Simulating and Optimizing CMUTs Using OnScale and Cloud Computing

1Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark ; 2OnScale, Glasgow, United Kingdom 

 14:40    G. Massimino1, A. Colombo1, R. Ardito1, F. Quaglia2, A. Corigliano1

Multiphysics modelling and experiments of an air-coupled array of PMUTs

1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy ; 2 Analog, MEMS & Sensors Group, ST Microelectronics, Via Tolomeo 1, 20010 Cornaredo, Italy. 

 15:00    Break   

 

Applications 2 - Chair : Levent Degertekin 

 15:30    C. Bulbul, H. Koymen, A. Atalar

Designing an array of transimpedance amplifiers for a CMUT array

Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, TURKEY 

 15:50    Jérôme Parent, Yves Emery

Sponsor presentation : Lyncée Tec SA, Lausanne, Switzerland

DHM, and ideal tool for static and dynamical MUT measurements, and more 

 16:10    Kevin Chan

Sponsor prensentation : OnScale, United Kingdom

Breaking Computer Barriers to Engineering Simulation  

 

 Friday, 8 June 2018                                                                                                                                                 

Applications 3 - Chair : Nicola Lamberti

 09:30    Invited paper - Fabio Quaglia

Micro-machined actuators and ultrasonic transducers - an industrial perspective

STMicroelectronics, Milan, Italy 

 10:00    Roger J. Zemp1, Chris Ceroici1, Kate Latham2, Ben Greenlay1, and Jeremy Brown2

TOBE or not TOBE: Top Orthogonal to Bottom Electrode 2D Ultrasound CMUT and Electrostrictive Transducer Technologies for 3D Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging

1Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta,  ; 2Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Dalhousie University 

 10:20    Alessandro Stuart Savoia1, Tung Manh2, Barbara Mauti1, Giosuè Caliano1, Tonni Franke Johansen3, Frédéric Lanteri4, Lars Hoff2, Trym Eggen5, Jean-François Gelly4  

Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Hybrid Piezoelectric-CMUT Dual-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducer 

1Department of Engineering, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy ; 2Department of Microsystems, University of South-Eastern Norway, Borre, Norway ; 3Department of Acoustics, SINTEF ICT, Norway ; 4GE Parallel Design SAS, Sophia Antipolis, France ; 5GE Vingmed Ultrasound AS, Horten, Norway 

 10:40     Break  

 

Fundamentals 2 - Chair : Giosue Caliano 

 11:10    A. Atalar, M. Khan, T.M. Khan1, A.S. Taşdelen2, M. Yılmaz1, H. Koymen

Increasing the receive sensitivity of a collapsed-mode airborne CMUT in snap-back region

Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, 1 UNAM, 2 BASTA, Bilkent University, Ankara, TURKEY 

 11:30    Sushruta Surappa1, Molei Tao2, F. Levent Degertekin1

1D Lumped Parameter Modeling of CPUT: A Capacitive Transducer without DC bias or Pre-Charge

1G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, 2School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA 

 11:50    Andreas Spandet Havreland1, Mathias Engholm1, and Erik Vilain Thomsen1 

CMUT Electrode Design: Modelling and Experimental Verification 

1Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark 

 12:30     Lunch 

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