Design and Fabrication of Focused Ultrasonic Transducers Using P(VDF-TrFE)/BT Single-crystal Micro-platelets Composite Film

This work developed a high performance P(VDF-TrFE)/BaTiO
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single-crystal micro-platelets composite film for ultrasonic transducers. The (001)-aligned BaTiO
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(BT) single-crystal micro-platelets were prepared by a two-step molten salt synthesis technique and then dispersed into P(VDF-TrFE) matrix by the layer-by-layer self-assembly technology. The prepared composite film exhibited improved piezoelectric and dielectric properties, with piezoelectric constant about 52 pC/N, and relative permittivity about 55 at 100 Hz, which would definitely contribute to better transducer performance as compared with traditional PVDF copolymer.