Ultrasonic impedance matching has a wide range of applications in the fields of nondestructive testing and ultrasonic imaging. In this paper, a piezoelectric shunt-based acoustic impedance tunable ultrasonic matching layer is proposed, which consists of a piezoelectric disc with a shunt circuit, and the effective acoustic impedance of the matching layer can be controlled in real time by adjusting the parameters of the shunt circuit. The theoretical results show that the acoustic impedance adjustable ultrasonic matching layer is capable of adjusting the impedance in the range of 1.5~20 MRayl compared with the conventional non-adjustable ultrasonic matching layer. Numerical calculations and simulation analyses also verified the impedance matching effect of the structure, and the transmittance was greater than 90%. Test samples of the acoustic impedance matching structure were fabricated, and the acoustic impedance matching effect of the structure was experimentally verified.
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