Seminars
August 17, 2021: Dr. Pham Ngoc Thao (VNU Univ. Eng. Tech.), Piezoelectric Micromachinied UltrasonicTransducers (pMUTs) and Their Applications
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (MUTs) have a lot of advantages such as small size, lightweight, low power consumption compared to piezoelectric bulk ceramic transducers, and thus have been used in many applications such as ultrasonic imaging, rangefinder, fingerprint sensor and so on in recent years. These advantages make the pMUT suitable for consumer electronics with its huge market. Many research groups and companies have developed various pMUTs for enhancing the performances. The most important index of the performance is the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and high SNR is achieved by enhancing both transmitting and receiving performances of pMUTs. In this presentation, I will show my work in developing novel materials and designs for improved pMUT performances. Moreover, the outlook for the future development of pMUT technology and the potential applications made feasible by integrated PMUT devices are also presented.
Speaker: Dr. Pham Ngoc Thao, VNU Univ. Eng. Tech.
Time: 15:30, Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Venue: Webinar
Pham Ngoc Thao received her B.E degree in Physics in 2010, MSc. degree in Material Science in 2013 from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), and Dr.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tohoku University in 2019. She was a Lecturer at the School of Engineering Physics, HUST from 2010 to 2011, and Research Assistant at International Training Institute for Materials Science, HUST from 2013 to 2015. She is currently Lecturer from 2019 at the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, VNU University of Engineering and Technology. Her research interests focus on (i) the new piezoelectric materials and the novel designs for pMUT as well as their applications; (ii) BioMEMS Microsystems for healthcare applications.