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US 2011/0242932 A1Published application
Cmut cell formed from a membrane of nanotubes or nanowires or nanorods and device for ultra high frequency acoustic imaging including multiple cells of this kind
AssigneesCommissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives, Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussees, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees
InventorsBèrengére Lebental, Anne Ghis
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Abstract
A cMUT-type capacitive electroacoustic transducer including: at least one membrane configured to oscillate under effect of an electric field and/or an acoustic wave, wherein the membrane is formed from one or more layers of juxtaposed nanotubes or nanowires or nanorods, and an acoustic imaging device or UHF sonar including such transducers.
Claims19
1-18. (canceled)
A cMUT capacitive electroacoustic transducer comprising:
- at least one membrane configured to oscillate under effect of an electric field and/or an acoustic wave,
- wherein the membrane is formed from one or more layers of nanotubes, and/or nanowires, and/or nanorods.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.