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- Here are a few examples of my work. The information has been
edited to protect proprietary information.
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Overview of Piezopump Performance - a State of the Art
(2007) Snapshot
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Piezopump Overview
Ultrasound Transducer Design and Specification
A 40 kHz Therapeutic
Ultrasound Applicator Head
A Semi-formal Transducer Specification
Multi-element Transducer Handpiece
Handpiece
Comments Regarding my Piezoelectric Device
Design and Analysis Work:
- At various times in my career, I have become involved with designing,
testing and computer modeling various devices that employ piezoelectric
materials. This started with my ultrasound engineering work at
ATL, continued with PVDF membrane
hydrophone work at
NTR Systems, Inc. and,
more recently, involved designing, analyzing and testing various micropump
devices of the piezopump type.
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- I have used finite element analysis (FEA - flexPDE) to perform a
variety of numerical experiments in order to determine the amplitude of
piezoelectric membrane displacement under the influence of various applied
voltage potentials, as a function of disc mounting method and as a function
of "dead space" in the internal pump chambers.
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- I have also designed electronic driver circuits to excite piezo devices
into the desired "action". Some of these piezoelectric driver circuits were
embedded in commercially manufactured medical ultrasound systems.
Others were used to drive piezopump devices.
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