Design and Characterization Piezoelectric Acoustic Transducer for Sonar Application

Ahmad, K. A.; Osman, Muhammad Khusairi; Hussain, Z.; Abdullah, Mohd Firdaus; Manaf, Asrulnizam Abd; Abdullah, Nusratuddin

doi:10.1109/iccsce.2018.8685014

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“…Communicating in marine environments adds additional complexity to signal transference given the medium through which the signals travel [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Specialized solutions built and dedicated for naval environments are required for a variety of purposes including small fishing vessels communicating with the coast guard and cruise ships or shipping vessels relaying location information [10][11][12]. Underwater communication is even more specialized and applies almost entirely to submersibles or submarines, which are used typically for science or surveillance.…”

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Underwater communication acoustic transducers: a technology review

Shams

2023

Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2023

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This paper provides a comprehensive review on transducer technologies for underwater communications. The popularly used communication transducers, such as piezoelectric acoustic transducers, electromagnetic acoustic transducers, and acousto-optic devices are reviewed in detail. The reasons that common air communication technologies are invalid die to the differences between the media of air and water are addresses. Because of the abilities to overcome challenges the complexity of marine environments, piezoelectric acoustic transducers are playing the major underwater communication roles for science, surveillance, and Naval missions. The configuration and material properties of piezoelectric transducers effects on signal output power, beamwidth, amplitude, and other properties are discussed. The methods of code and decode communication information signals into acoustic waves are also presented. Finally, several newly developed piezoelectric transducers are recommended for future studies.

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confidence: 99%

Underwater communication acoustic transducers: a technology review

Shams

2023

Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2023

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“…Among them, the devices based on the piezoelectric effect are attracting the interest of the scientific community, since they can be used not only for energy harvesting processes [ 9 , 10 , 11 ], but also in daily used devices, such as, for example, microphones and vibration sensors [ 12 ]. Direct and inverse piezoelectric effect are well-known phenomena since the end of the XIX century [ 13 , 14 ], which can be exploited in resonators [ 15 ], micropumps [ 16 ], or more complex systems like sonars [ 17 ], continuous pressure monitor devices, [ 18 ] and in the so-called piezoelectric surgery [ 19 ]. Alongside this, pushed by the dramatic increases of energy request, the use of piezoelectric materials, as devices for energy harvesting, appears to be a very appealing research field [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ].…”

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Wet Synthesis of Elongated Hexagonal ZnO Microstructures for Applications as Photo-Piezoelectric Catalysts

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It is well known that energetic demand and environmental pollution are strictly connected; the side products of vehicle and industrial exhausts are considered extremely dangerous for both human and environmental health. In the last years, the possibility to simultaneously photo-degrade water dissolved pollutants by means of ZnO nanostructures and to use their piezoelectric features to enhance the photo-degradation process has been investigated. In the present contribution, an easy and low-cost wet approach to synthetize hexagonal elongated ZnO microstructures in the wurtzite phase was developed. ZnO performances as photo-catalysts, under UV-light irradiation, were confirmed on water dissolved methylene blue dye. Piezoelectric responses of the synthetized ZnO microstructures were evaluated, as well, by depositing them into films onto flexible substrates, and a home-made layout was developed, in order to stimulate the ZnO microstructures deposited on solid supports by means of mechanical stress and UV photons, simultaneously. A relevant increment of the photo-degradation efficiency was observed when the piezopotential was applied, proposing the present approach as a completely eco-friendly tool, able to use renewable energy sources to degrade water solved pollutants.

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“…Hence, the design includes try and error which could be a tedious process. Also, the nonlinear and distributed parameters of the transducer model make it difficult to devise a systematic design approach [1,5,7,8], or required significant amount of experiments [9].…”

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Optimization of sonar transducers via evolutionary algorithms

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Morsali

2019

SN Appl. Sci.

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Tonpilz acoustic transducer is a device for detecting objects under the water and measuring their properties. The Tonpilz includes a stack of piezoelectric actuators polarized across their thickness. The range of pressure level on the working frequency band and the sound pressure level at the resonance frequency are two crucial factors determining the performance of the transducer. A large number of structural and material attributes makes the design process of Tonpilz difficult. This study aims to improve the performance of a Tonpilz by using the optimization to find the globally optimum design variable set. A multi-objective function is introduced based on transducer performance measures. Furthermore, the problem of mixed-integer programming is addressed. Based on the geometrical and operational limits, a series of constraints were introduced in the optimization problem. The results show that optimizing the design variables greatly enhances performance.

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Design and Characterization Piezoelectric Acoustic Transducer for Sonar Application

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Underwater communication acoustic transducers: a technology review

Underwater communication acoustic transducers: a technology review

Wet Synthesis of Elongated Hexagonal ZnO Microstructures for Applications as Photo-Piezoelectric Catalysts

Optimization of sonar transducers via evolutionary algorithms

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