Main building, Gløshaugen The workshop will take place at the auditorium Kjel 2 in the Kjel-building at the University campus at Gløshaugen. The campus is located 2 km outside the city center (10-15 minute walk). There is also a map you can download from a link at the bottom of this page. Bus no 5 will take you from the city center to Gløshaugen in 5 minutes. It leaves every ten minutes from the city center. The relevant bus stops is indicated on the map. It leaves 08:05, 08:15, 08:25, 08:35, 08:45, 08:55, 09:05, 09:15, 09:25 and 09:35.

Tentative program

7th International Workshop on Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
Trondheim, May 8-9, 2008

The program can be downloaded as a PDF-format from a link at the bottom of this page.  

Thursday, May 8

09:00-09:45 Registration and coffee
09:45-10:00 Welcome
10:00-10:30 Analysis of dual-electrode CMUT designs for improved operation and
                  performance
                  R.Guldiken, J. Zahorian, M. Balantekin, F. Levent Degertekin
10:30-11:00 Element shape design of CMUT arrays for 3D ultrasound imaging 
                  V. Bavaro et al.
11:00-11:30 Simple and accurate CMUT modeling using lumped parameters
                  A. Rønnekleiv
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-12:30 A low noise capacitive feedback analog front-end for cMUT based IVUS:
                  Experimental results
                  A. Bozkurt et al.
12:30-13:00 Co-optimization of CMUT and receive amplifiers to suppress effects of neighbor 
                  coupling between CMUT elements 
                  S. Berg et al.
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 CMUTs as a physical/chemical sensor in air
                  B. (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub et al.
14:30-15:00 Thin film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) for biosensor applications 
                  G. Wingqvist et al.
15:00-15:30 New imaging techniques – a transducer challenge?
                  B. Angelsen
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-16:30 Panel discussion: Commercial breakthrough of MUT. When will it come and
                  what will it be?
                  B. Angelsen, P.C. Eccardt, J.F. Gelly, and B.T. Khuri-Yakub
16:30-18:30 Free time
18:30-22:30 Boat trip and dinner at Munkholmen

Friday, May 9
08:00-09:00 Open for additional contributions
09:00-09:30 Simulation of large signal operation of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic
                  transducers 
                  M. Balantekin and F. L. Degertekin
09:30-10:00 Radiation impedance of an immersed cMUT array element
                  M. N. Senlik et al.
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-10:45 Reproducibility assessment of CMUT transducers 
                  M. Legros et al.
10:45-11:15 Optical characterization of CMUTs by heterodyne interferometry
                  H. Martinussen et al.
11:15-11:45 Analysis of charge effects in high frequency CMUTs 
                  K. Midtbø
11:45-12:15 Coffee
12:15-12:45 Micromachined capacitive transducers based on fused silica as substrate
                  material T.
                  Shary and W. Benecke
12:45-13:15 Properties of piezoelectric materials at the nanometer scale
                  T. Tybell
13:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-14:45 The CMUT adapted as a transducer for acoustic emission
                  D. W. Greve et al.
14:45-15:15 Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probes with electrostatic actueation for
                  fast, quantitative imaging and single molecule force measurements
                 F. L. Degertekin et al.
15:15-15:45 Opportunities for European cooperative R&D projects within MUT. 
                  Introduction to an open discussion in plenum 
                  P. Gløersen

The program committee:

S. Ballandras, LPMO-CNRS, Besançon (France) 
G. Caliano, Università Roma Tre (Italy)
F. L. Degertekin, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
P.-C. Eccardt, Siemens (Germany)
J.F. Gelly, Parallel Design Nice, Sofia Antipolis (France)
P. Khuri-Yakub, Standford University (USA)
R. Lerch, University of Erlangen (Germany)
P. Muralt, EPFL (Switzerland)
M. Pappalardo, Università Roma Tre (Italy)
A. Rønnekleiv, NTNU (Norway)
A. Caronti, Università Roma Tre, (Italy)
A. Atalar, Bilkent University (Turkey)

There will be a conference dinner at Munkholmen, an idyllic island off the coast of Trondheim Munkholmen