Ferroelectric polymers: current and future ultrasound applications

Author

Brown, Lewis F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD, USA

fYear

1992

Firstpage

539

Abstract

Current commercial applications of ferroelectric polymers for both nondestructive testing (NDT) and medical ultrasound are reviewed. Cases are made for their future need in such applications as embedded sensors for structural NDT and health monitoring, extremely high-frequency broadband materials characterization, and ´disposable´ invasive medical imaging. A brief overview of some of these fabrication techniques includes multilayer film-forming, robust electrical interconnects, direct polymer deposition, and combining the ferroelectric polymer and semiconductor technologies to produce integrated ultrasonic devices

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; ferroelectric materials; polymers; reviews; ultrasonic materials testing; ultrasonic transducers; US transducers; direct polymer deposition; disposable invasive medical imaging; embedded sensors; fabrication techniques; ferroelectric polymers; high-frequency broadband materials characterization; integrated ultrasonic devices; medical ultrasound; multilayer film-forming; nondestructive testing; robust electrical interconnects; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical monitoring; Fabrication; Ferroelectric materials; Image sensors; Nondestructive testing; Polymer films; Semiconductor materials; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 1992. Proceedings., IEEE 1992

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0562-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.1992.275948

Filename

275948