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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Ultrasonic flow meters (UFMs) based on transducer arrays offer several advantages. With electronic beam steering, it is possible to tune the steering angle of the beam for optimal signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) upon reception. Moreover, multiple beams can be generated to propagate through different travel paths, covering a wider section of the flow...article 2022
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Quesson, B.A.J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Tamer, M.S. (author), Hatakeyama, K. (author), van Es, M.H. (author), van Riel, M.C.J.M. (author), Piras, D. (author)The semiconductor industry needs to fit ever more devices per unit area to improve their performance; hence a trend towards increasingly complex structures by varying material combinations and 3D geometries with increasing aspect ratios. The new materials used may be optically opaque, posing problems for traditional optical metrology methods....conference paper 2022
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Noothout, E.C. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Common clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters consist of two single-element transducers placed on the pipe wall. Flow speed is measured noninvasively, i.e., without interrupting the flow and without perforating the pipe wall, which also minimizes safety risks and avoids pressure drops inside the pipe. However, before metering, the transducers have to...article 2022
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Sabbadini, A. (author), Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)In recent years, several fitting techniques have been presented to reconstruct the parameters of a plate from its Lamb wave dispersion curves. Published studies show that these techniques can yield high accuracy results and have the potential of reconstructing several parameters at once. The precision with which parameters can be reconstructed...article 2022
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- Visschers, F.L.L. (author), Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author), Liu, D. (author), Broer, D.J. (author) article 2022
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters (UFMs) are installed on the outside of the pipe wall. Typically, they consist of two single-element transducers mounted on angled wedges, which are acoustically coupled to the pipe wall. Before flow metering, the transducers are placed at the correct axial position by manually moving one transducer along the pipe...article 2022
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Sabbadini, A. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Current ultrasonic clamp-on flow meters consist of a pair of single-element transducers which are carefully positioned before use. This positioning process consists of manually finding the distance between the transducer elements, along the pipe axis, for which maximum SNR is achieved. This distance depends on the sound speed, thickness and...article 2021
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Acoustic wave propagation in ultrasonic flow measurements is typically assumed to be linear and reciprocal.However, if the transmitting transducer generates a sufficiently high pressure, nonlinear wave propagation effects become significant. In flow measurements, this would translate into more information to estimate the flow and therefore a...article 2021
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van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Quesson, B.A.J. (author), Tamer, M.S. (author), Hatakeyama, K. (author), van Es, M.H. (author), van Riel, M.C.J.M. (author), Piras, D. (author)Several methods are being researched to detect and characterize buried nanoscale structures in hard solid samples. The most common acoustic method is acoustic microscopy. An acoustic microscope is based on a single element transducer operating in pulse-echo mode. The acoustic waves are coupled into a sample using a liquid couplant (eg water) and...article 2021
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- Piras, D. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Thijssen, R.M.T. (author), Sadeghian, H. (author) article 2020
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van Es, M.H. (author), Quesson, B.A.J. (author), Mohtashami, A. (author), Piras, D. (author), Hatakeyama, K. (author), Fillinger, L. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author)In order to extract ever more performance from semiconductor devices on the same device area, the semiconductor industry is moving towards device structures with increasingly complex material combinations and 3D geometries. To ensure cost effective fabrication of next generation devices, metrology solutions are needed that tackle the specific...conference paper 2020
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Quesson, B.A.J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Es, M. (author), M.H. van, (author), Piras, D. (author), Hatakeyama, K. (author), Mohtashami, A. (author), van der Lans, M.J. (author)In Subsurface Scanning Probe Microscopy (SSPM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is combined with ultrasound. The AFM cantilever is used as a receiver. At low frequencies (O(MHz)) the method can be used to measure the stiffness contrast in a sample and at high frequencies (O(GHz)) to measure scattering based contrast. Both variants use modulated...conference paper 2020
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van Es, M.H. (author), Quesson, B.A.J. (author), Mohtashami, A. (author), Piras, D. (author), Hatakeyama, K. (author), Fillinger, L. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author)In order to extract ever more performance from semiconductor devices on the same device area, the semiconductor industry is moving towards device structures with increasingly complex material combinations and 3D geometries. To ensure cost effective fabrication of next generation devices, metrology solutions are needed that tackle the specific...conference paper 2020
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Peters, L.C.J.M. (author), Ollearo, R. (author), Verbeek, R.G.F.A. (author), van der Steen, J.L.P.J. (author), Akkerman, H.B. (author), Volker, A.W.F. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Gelinck, G.H. (author)Large-area flexible ultrasound arrays can offer new ultrasound modalities in multiple fields. The production of these arrays when using CMOS-type fabrication techniques faces scalability challenges and costs increase dramatically when upscaled to large dimensions. We investigate the monolithic production of large-area PPT (Printed Polymer...conference paper 2019
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Current ultrasonic clamp-on flow meters are manually calibrated. This process is based on manual placement of two single-element transducers along a pipe wall. Due to the usually unknown pipe properties and inhomogeneities in the pipe geometry, the axial distance of the transducers needs to be manually calibrated to align the location of the...conference paper 2019
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- Tronci, S. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Giling, E.J.M. (author), Stelwagen, U. (author), Piras, D. (author), Mei, R. (author), Corominas, F. (author), Grosso, M. (author) article 2019
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Koek, W.D. (author), van Zwet, E.J. (author), Plissi, M. (author), Eschen, M. (author), Piras, D. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van der Lans, M.J. (author)We have developed a photo thermal acoustic imaging (PTAI)setup and have applied it for the characterization of sub surface features composed of materials which are commonly used in the semiconductor industry. Photo thermal acoustic imaging (PTAI) is a measurement technique that combines the practical advantages of an optical technique (non...other 2019
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van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Es, M.H. (author), Piras, D. (author), Navarro, V. (author), Mohtashami, A. (author), van der Lans, M.J. (author), Sadeghian Marnani, H. (author)This work details the initial simulation and experimental GHz SPM work carried out at TNO.other 2019
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