Publications

Y. Seo, D. Kim, & N. A. Hall (2020). “On-diaphragm Thermistor for High-temperature Dynamic Pressure Sensors,” IEEE Sensors Journal, 20(5), 2287-2293.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2019.2953397


Y. Seo, D. Kim, & N. A. Hall, “Piezoelectric Pressure Sensors for Hypersonic Flow Measurements,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 28(2), 271-278, 2019.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jmems.2019.2899266

D. Kim, & N. A. Hall, “A Shear-stress Sensor for Hypersonic Flow Measurements,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Early Access as of June 25, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jmems.2019.2899256


R. P. Williams & N. A. Hall, “A Thévenin-inspired approach to multiple scattering in acoustics,” Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 141(1), 011016-1-12, 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4040927


R. P. Williams, D. Kim, K.L. Gleason & N. A. Hall, “Towards acoustic particle velocity sensors in air using entrained balloons: Measurements and modeling,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(2), 780-785, 2018.

https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5022801


R. Williams, S. K. Hord, and N. A. Hall, “Optically-read displacement detection using phase-modulated diffraction gratings with reduced zeroth-order reflections,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 110, p. 0151104, 2017.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2017.04.001


Y. Seo, D. Corona, and N. A. Hall, "On the theoretical maximum achievable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of piezoelectric microphones," Sensors and Actuators A, vol. 264, p. 341-346, 2017.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2017.04.001


R. P. Williams, D. Kim, D. P. Gawalt, & N. A. Hall, "Surface micromachined differential piezoelectric shear-stress sensors," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 27, p. 015011, 2017.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0960-1317/27/1/015011


R. Williams and N. A. Hall, "Thevenin Acoustics," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 140, p. 4449-4455, 2016.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4971284


M. L. Kuntzman, D. Kim, and N. A. Hall, "Microfabrication and Experimental Evaluation of a Rotational Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer," Journal of Microelectromechanical System, vol. 24(2), pp. 404-413, April 2015.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2014.2332255


M. L. Kuntzman, N. N. Hewa-Kasakarage, A. Rocha, D. Kim, and N. A. Hall, "Micromachined In-Plane Pressure-Gradient Piezoelectric Microphones," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 15(3), pp. 1347-1357, March 2015.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2014.2361118


D. Kim, M. L. Kuntzman, and N. A. Hall, "A Transmission Line Model of Back-Cavity Dynamics for In-Plane Pressure-Gradient Microphones," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 136(5), pp. 2544-2553, November 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4897401


D. Kim, N. N. Hewa-Kasakarage, and N. A. Hall, "A Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of 3-3 and 3-1 Mode Piezoelectric Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 219, pp. 112-122, November 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2014.08.006


D. Kim, M. L. Kuntzman, and N. A. Hall, "A Rotational Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (RCMUT) with an Internally Sealed Pivot," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (TUFFC), vol. 61(9), pp. 1545-1551, September 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2014.3068


M. L. Kuntzman and N. A. Hall, "Sound Source Localization Inspired by the Ears of the Ormia Ochracea," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 105(3), pp. 033701-4, July 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4887370


M. L. Kuntzman and N. A. Hall, "A Broadband, Capacitive, Surface-Micromachined, Omnidirectional Microphone with more than 200 kHz Bandwidth," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 135, pp. 3416-3424, June 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4874620


D. Kim and N. A. Hall, "Towards a Sub 15-dBA Optical Micromachined Microphone," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 135, pp. 2664-2673, May 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4871181


D. Kim, C. T. Garcia, B. Avenson, and N. A. Hall, "Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Low-Noise Backplate for a Grating-Based Optical Interferometric Sensor," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. PP (99), pp. 1-1, March 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2014.2304840


M. L. Kuntzman and N. A. Hall, "Rotational Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (cMUTs)," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 23(1), pp. 1-3, February 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2013.2288577


N. N. Hewa-Kasakarage, D. Kim, M. L. Kuntzman, and N. A. Hall, "Micromachined Piezoelectric Accelerometers via Epitaxial Silicon Cantilevers and Bulk Silicon Proof Masses," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 22(6), pp. 1438-1446, December 2013.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2013.2262581


M. L. Kuntzman, D. Kim, N. N. Hewa-Kasakarage, K. D. Kirk, and N. A. Hall, "Network Modeling of Multiple-Port, Multiple-Vibration-Mode Transducers and Resonators," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 201, pp. 93-100, October 2013.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2013.05.031


D. Kim, N. N. Hewa-Kasakarage, M. L. Kuntzman, K. D. Kirk, S. H. Yoon, and N. A. Hall, "Piezoelectric Micromachined Microphones with Out-of-Plane Directivity," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 103, pp. 013502-5, July 2013.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4812298


D. Kim, N. N. Hewa-Kasakarage, S. H. Yoon, K. D. Kirk, M. Kuntzman, and N. A. Hall, "Electrical Admittance Spectroscopy for Piezoelectric MEMS," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 22(2), pp. 295-302, April 2013.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2012.2221157


M. L. Kuntzman, J. G. Lee, N. N. Hewa-Kasakarage, D. Kim, and N. A. Hall, "Micromachined Piezoelectric Microphones with In-Plane Directivity," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102, pp. 054109-4, February 2013.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4776687


J. W. Suk, K. Kirk, Y. Hao, N. A. Hall, and R. S. Ruoff, "Thermoacoustic Sound Generation from Monolayer Graphene for Transparent and Flexible Sound Sources," Advanced Materials, vol. 24(47), pp. 6342-6347, December 2012.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201201782


D. Kim, N. N. Hewa-Kasakarage, S. Yoon, and N. A. Hall, "On the Minimum Coupling Required for Maximum Theoretical Power Capture from Vibration Energy Harvesters," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 101, pp. 103904-3, September 2012.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4749824


M. L. Kuntzman, C. T. Garcia, A. G. Onaran, B. Avenson, K. D. Kirk, and N. A. Hall, "Performance and Modeling of a Fully Packaged Micromachined Optical Microphone," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 20(4), pp. 828-833, August 2011.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2011.2148164