2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium was held in Roma, Italy from September 20 to 23. A delegation of SWA research group of Acoustical Micro-Electronic Mechanics System Laboratory on behalf of IACAS attended the conference. The paper titled "Sensitivity evaluation of a SH-SAW based micro rate sensor" co-authored by WAN Wen, HE Shitang and LI Honglang was presented by poster during the conference.
IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium was sponsored by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society, which is held annually. The symposium usually includes parallel oral and poster sessions covering the following 5 topics: Medical Ultrasonics, Sensors, NDE & Industrial Applications, Physical Acoustics, Microacoustics -- SAW, FBAR, MEMS, and Transducers & Transducer Materials. As one of most important academic gatherings in the international ultrasonic field, every year there will be more than 1000 researchers in ultrasonic field join the conferences. The papers accepted by the conference will be included in IEEEXplore (EI) and will be published in Transactions on UFFC (SCI). This year, the organizing committee all together received 854 papers, including 25 invited lectures, 371 oral presentation and 483 posters.
Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) is an important study topic in microacoustics filed, which attracts many submitted papers this year. The paper from IACAS mainly talks about a new kind of SH-SAW gyroscope based on shear-type SAW Gyroscopic Effect. In view of the existing bottleneck problems in gyroscopic technology, the author put forward a new idea that is to bring the shear-type--ST-90oX into the gyroscope, which can effectively improve the sensitivity of the device and finally promote the application of SAW gyroscopic technology.
During the conference, the researchers from IACAS had warm discussion with the foreign scientist on the hot issues in the related field. The highly-efficient exchanges at the conference constituted a sound basis for future international operation and enlarged out institute' s reputation in international ultrasonic acoustics field.
