High Performance Piezoelectric Microspeakers and Thin Speaker Array System

ETRI Journal

关键词: directivity;    distortion;    sound pressure level;    microspeaker;    Piezoelectric;   

Others  :  1185740
DOI  :  10.4218/etrij.09.1209.0010

【 摘 要 】

This paper reports on an improved piezoelectric microspeaker with a high sound pressure level of 90 dB, a total harmonic distortion of less than 15%, and coherence higher than 0.9. The fabricated Pb(Zr,Ti)O₃ (PZT) microspeakers have a thickness of only 1 mm including the speaker frame and an active area of 18 mmx20 mm. To achieve higher sound pressure and lower distortion, the PZT piezoelectric microspeaker has a well-designed speaker frame and a piezoelectric diaphragm consisting of a tilted PZT membrane and silicone buffer layer. From the simulation and measurement results, we confirmed that the silicon buffer layer can lower the first resonant frequency, which enhances the microspeaker's sound pressure at a low frequency range and can also reduce useless distortion generated by the harmonics. The fabricated PZT piezoelectric microspeakers are implemented on a multichannel speaker array system for personal acoustical space generation. The output sound pressure at a 30 cm distance away from the center of the speaker line array is 15 dB higher than the sound pressure at the neighboring region 30 degrees from the vertical axis.

   

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