University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

   

The Group of High-frequency Medical Ultrasound Imaging Technology and Piezoelectric Materials

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Xiaobing Li

Ph.D, Associate professor

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Biography

Xiaobing Li is an associate professor of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He received the Doctoral degree in Material Science and Technology from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS), China in 2007. Li research group develops the advanced piezoelectric materials and ultrasound imaging technologies for the high-frequency applications.

Research Interests

  • Mechanism of piezoelectric response
  • Fabrication of ceramic-based piezocomposites
  • Medical ultrasound transducer and imaging technologies

Education: 

  • 2007 ~ 2010 Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,            Materials Science & Engineering Ph.D
  • 2004 ~ 2007 Qingdao University, Materials Science & Engineering M.S. 
  • 2000 ~ 2004 Qingdao University, Physics B.E. 

Professional Experience

  • University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Associate professor
    Dec 2018——Present

  • University of New South Wales, Department of Physics, Australia Academic visitor
    Feb 2016——Jun 2016

  • Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Associate professor.
    Aug 2010——Nov 2018

Project

  • Shanghai Natural Science General Projects (No. 19ZR1436200), “Design and fabrication of lead-free phased array transducer with high performance”, 2019-2022。

  • Shanghai-Hong Kong Science and technology cooperation project (No. 19440760800), “A lead-free intravascular ultrasound transducer (IVUS)”, 2020-2022。

  • The USST key research program of medical-engineering cooperation, “An intravascular ultrasound imaging equipment for cerebrovascular”, 2020-2021。

  • National Key Basic Research Program (973 Program, sub-project), “the growth of large-sized homogeneous relaxor-based single crystals along [001] direction”, 2013-2017。

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11304333), “The interaction between polar nano-regions and dipole defects in relaxor-based ferroelectric single crystals”, 2014-2016。

  • Key Projects of Scientific and Technological Innovation, SICCAS, “the fabrication of high-performance lead-free ferroelectric single crystals with morphotropic phase boundary”, 2017-2019。

Research

1.Why these materials exhibit stable and ultra-high piezoelectric performance?

Pb-based ferroelectric solid-solutions with perovskite structure is industrial important as their ultrahigh piezoelectric performance. How interesting but still puzzled is the nature of the very large piezoelectric response even it’s critical for properties modification. For many years, we have tried to understand the origin of the response mechanism via Raman spectrum, inelastic neutron scattering, synchrotron radiation x-ray and so on. Fortunately, we have gotten a research route and published some results as shown in the figure. The continual researches in our lab are expected to reveal more details to obtain new piezoelectric materials with higher piezoelectric performance.

2.Fine scaled 1-3 piezocomposites for high-frequency ultrasonic transducers

For the fabrication of 1-3 piezocomposites in ultrasonic transducers, the dice and fill process is limited due to the width of the dicing blade, and the etching technology also makes the microstructure shallow and uneconomic. Now, a novel Soft Mold Process has been developed in our lab to fabricated the 1-3 piezocomposites with smaller pitch size (70~10 μm) and low-cost in mass production. The right figures show the sintered standing PZT rods with 70 μm in diameter and the polymer filled composite with gold electrode. Using the soft mold process our lab is able to offer the 1-3 piezocomposites for high-frequency ultrasonic transducers above 30 MHz.

3.High-frequency medical ultrasound imaging technologies for fine structure of tissues

The high-frequency ultrasound transducer and imaging system are desirable for doctors and biologists to observe the many tissues with microstructures. We have designed and fabricated the miniature ultrasound transducer with the central frequency of 40 MHz and less than 0.5 mm in size, as shown in the right figure. The idea sensitivity and fine spatial resolutions have been obtained at the same time. Some animal tissues have been investigated by using the fabricated transducer, such as the fine structure of pig’s vessel wall in the figure. We would like to offer the high-frequency ultrasound technology to help doctors and biologists to observe the eyes, skins, small animals and so on.

Publications

  1. Zihao Li, Yuchun Wang, Yanxue Tang, Xiangyong Zhao, Tao Wang, Zhihua Duan, Feifei Wang, Xiaobing Li, Chung Ming Leung, Bijun Fang, Growth and electrical properties of high‐Curie point rhombohedral Mn‐Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3‐Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3‐PbTiO3 thin films, *J. Am, Ceram. Soc.*104, 313-321(2021).

  2. Xiaobing Li, Shengdong Nie, Feifei Wang, Xiangyong Zhao, Haiwu Zhang, Haosu Luo, Guorong Li, Jae-Hyeon Ko, Zhi Guo, Zheng Jiang and Renzhong Tai, Phys. Rev. B, 101, 104105 (2020).

  3. Erding Zhao, Ze Fang, Mingqiang Cheng, Yalin Qin, Xiaodong Jiang, Xiaobing Li and Yongcheng Zhang, In situ observation of two-step 90° domain reversal with different characteristics in PMN–38%PT single crystal, Journal of Materials Science, 55, 8041-8049(2020).

  4. Ying Hu, Xiaobing Li, Lijia Wang, Baosan Han, Shengdong Nie, T-distribution stochastic neighbor embedding for fine brain functional parcellation on rs-fMRI, *Brain Research Bulletin,*162, 199-207(2020).

  5. Kaijun Hao, Wenwei Ge, Zhenan Ren, Xiaojuan Liu, Laihui Luo, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo, Dwight Viehland, Combining effects of TiO6 octahedron rotations and random electric fields on structural and properties in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3,J. Am, Ceram. Soc. 103, 3349-3360 (2020).

  6. Chao Gao, Zhi Guo, Xiaobing Li, Mingjun Zhang, Hao-Cheng Thong, Sishi Qu, Haosu Luo, Renzhong Tai, Long-range fluctuation of polar nanoregions in relaxor-based (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3 ferroelectric single crystals, Solid State Commun., 293, 1-5(2019).

  7. Rongfeng Zhua, Xiaobing Li, Zhengqian Fu, Jianwei Chen, Haiqing Xu, Haosu Luo Investigations of defects in Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystals grown along [001] direction, Ceramics International45,133541(2019).

  8. Byoung Wan Lee, Jeong Woo Lee, Jae-Hyeon Ko, Xiaobing Li and Haosu Luo, Anomalous behaviors of elastic constants of lead-free piezoelectric (Na1/2Bi1/2)TiO3-5%BaTiO3 single crystals studied by Brillouin spectroscopy, Journal of Applied Physics, 126,174103 (2019).

  9. P. M. Gehring, Zhijun Xu, C. Stock, Guangyong Xu, D. Parshall, L. Harriger, C. A. Gehring, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo, Comment on “Giant electromechanical coupling of relaxor ferroelectricscontrolled by polar nanoregion vibrations”, Science Advances, 5, 3(2019).

  10. Soo HanOh, Byoung Wan Lee, Moongyu Jang, Jae-Hyeon Ko, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo, Effect of Mn doping on the acoustic and vibrational behaviors of lead-free piezoelectric (Na1/2Bi1/2)TiO3-xBaTiO3 single crystals, Current Applied Physics, 19, 1195-1203(2019).

  11. Jialin Xu, Hao Deng, Zhou Zeng, Zhang Zhang, Jianwei Chen, Xiaobing Li and Haosu Luo, Piezoelectric performance enhancement of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 crystals by alternating current polarization for ultrasonic transducer, Applied Physics Letters, 112, 182901 (2018).

  12. Zhang zhang, Jialin xu, Lili yang, Sixing Liu, Junjie Xiao, Xiaobing Li, Xi“an Wang, Haosu Luo, Design and comparison of PMN-PT single crystals and PZT ceramics based medical phased array ultrasonic transducer, Sensors ＆ Actuators: A. Physical, 283, 273-281(2018).

  13. Haiwu Zhang, HongYan, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo, Electrical properties, defect chemistry and local lattice relaxation in Nb2O5 modified 0.94(Na0.5Bi0.5)TiO3-0.06BaTiO3 ferroelectrics, Scripta Materialia, 156, 32-36(2018).

  14. Peter M. Gehring，Dan Parshall, Leland Harriger, Chris Stock, Guangyong Xu, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo, Phantom phonon localization in relaxors, Nature Communications, 8, 1935(2017)

  15. Chengtao Luo, Dipanshu Bansal, Jiefang Li, Dwight Viehland, Barry Winn, Yang Ren, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo, and Olivier Delaire, Neutron and x-ray scattering study of phonon dispersion and diffuse scattering in (Na,Bi)TiO3-xBaTiO3 single crystals near the morphotropic phase boundary, Phys. Rev. B 96, 174108(2017).

  16. Bijun Fang, Xing Liu, Xiaobing Li, Jianning Ding, Xiangyong Zhao & Haosu Luo, Temperature-dependent Raman spectra and electrical properties of 0.69Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.31PbTiO3 single crystals, Applied Physics A, 122, 811 (2016). 

  17. Qing Xu, Xiangyong Zhao, Xiaobing Li, Hao Deng, Hong Yan, Linrong Yang, Wenning Di, Haosu Luo, Norbert Neumann, D-Printing of inverted pyramid suspending architecture for pyroelectric infrared detectors with inhibited microphonic effect, Infrared Physics & Technology, 76, 111-115(2016).

  18. Xiaobing Li, Chao Chen, Hao Deng, Haiwu Zhang, Di Lin, Xiangyong Zhao, Haosu Luo, The Growth and Properties of Lead-free Ferroelectric Single Crystals, Crystals, 5, 172-192(2015).

  19. Jianwei Chen, Xiaobing Li, Xiangyong Zhao, Haiwu Zhang, Hao Deng, Chao Chen, Xi’an Wang, Bo Ren, Wenning Di, Haosu Luo, Growth and characterization of high-Curie temperature Pb(Lu1/2Nb1/2)O3-Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 ternary single crystal by modified Bridgman technique, Journal of Crystal Growth, 423, 50-54(2015).

  20. Jianwei Chen, Xiaobing Li, Xiangyong Zhao, Xi’an Wang, Chao Chen, Hao Deng, Bo Ren, Jie Jiao & Haosu Luo, Compositional segregation, structural transformation and property-temperature relationship of high-Curie temperature Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3–Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystals, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 26, 9316-9328(2015).

  21. Long Li, Xiangyong Zhao, Xiaobing Li, Bo Ren, Qing Xu, Haosu Luo, Xin Li, Xiumei Shao, Scale Effects of Low-Dimensional Relaxor Ferroelectric Single Crystals and Their Application in Novel Pyroelectric Infrared Detectors, Advanced Materials, 26, 25802585(2014).

  22. Long Li, Xiaobing Li, Xiangyong Zhao, Bo Ren, Qing Xu, Haiqing Xu, Haosu Luo, Xin Li, Xiumei Shao, Enhanced dielectric, pyroelectric and ferroelectric properties of Mn-doped 0.15Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3-0.55Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.30PbTiO3 single crystals, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 595, 120-124(2014).

  23. Chao Chen, Hao Deng, Xiaobing Li, Haiwu Zhang, Ting Huang, Di Lin, Sheng Wang, Xiangyong Zhao, Zhigao Hu and Haosu Luo, Study of field-induced phase transitions in 0.68PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3-0.32PbTiO3 relaxor single crystal by polarized micro-Raman spectroscopy, Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 102909 (2014).

  24. Long Li, Xiangyong Zhao, Xiaobing Li, Qing Xu, Linrong Yang, Sheng Wang and Haosu Luo, Residual stress and interface effect on dielectric mechanisms in poled ultrathin relaxor ferroelectric single crystals, Journal of Applied Physics, 115, 204104 (2014).

  25. Xiaobing Li, Xiangyong Zhao, Bo Ren, Haosu Luo, Wenwen Ge, Jiang Zheng, Shuo Zhang, Microstructure and dielectric relaxation of dipolar defects in Mn-doped Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystals, Scripta Materialia, 69, 377380(2013).

  26. Haiwu Zhang, Qinhui Zhang, Xiangyong Zhao, Xiaobing Li, Dong Wang, and Haosu Luo, Optical dispersion and interband transition in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-x%BaTiO3 lead-free relaxor ferroelectric single crystals, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 202904 (2013).

  27. Wei Wang, Xiaobing Li, Siu Wing Or, Chung Ming Leung, Jie Jiao, Yaoyao Zhang, Xiangyong Zhao, Haosu Luo, Temperature dependence of dielectric polarization and strain behaviors for rhombohedral PIMNT single crystal with different crystallographic orientations, Journal of Alloys and Compound, 545, 57-62(2012).

  28. Renbing Sun, Xiaobing Li, Qinhui Zhang, Bijun Fang, Haiwu Zhang, Di Lin, Sheng Wang, Xiangyong Zhao, Haosu Luo, Growth and electrical properties of 0.95Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3–0.05K0.5Bi0.5TiO3 lead-free piezoelectric crystal by the TSSG method, Journal of Crystal Growth, 341,34-37(2012).

  29. Qinhui Zhang, Xiaobing Li, RenbingSun, XiaoWu, BoRen, XiangyongZhao, HaosuLuo, Electric properties of Mn doped 0.95Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-0.05BaTiO3 crystal after different annealing processes, Journal of Crystal Growth, 318,870-873 (2011).

  30. Yaoyao Zhang, Xiaobing Li, Da“an Liu, Qinhui Zhang, Wei Wang, Bo Ren, Di Lin, Xiangyong Zhao, Haosu Luo, The compositional segregation, phase structure and properties of Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3-Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystal, Journal of Crystal Growth, 318, 890-894(2011).

  31. Xiao Wu, Linhua Liu, Xiaobing Li, Xiangyong Zhao, Di Lin, Haosu Luo, Yanlin Huang, The influence of defects on ferroelectric and pyroelectric properties of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystals, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 132, 87-90 (2011).

  32. Xiaobing Li and Haosu Luo, The Growth and properties of relxor-based ferroelectric single crystals, J. Am, Ceram. Soc. (Feature article), 93, 2915-2918(2010).

  33. Xiaobing Li, Yaojin Wang, Linhua Liu, Xiangyong Zhao, Haosu Luo and Di Lin, The MA-type monoclinic phase and its dc electric／temperature responses studies in Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3-Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 ternary single crystals by polarized light microscopy. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 122, 350-353(2010).

  34. Qinhui Zhang, Yaoyao Zhang, Feifei Wang, DiLin, Xiaobing Li, Xiangyong Zhao, Haosu Luo, Growth and electric properties of 0.96Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3–0.04BaTiO3 single crystal, Journal of Crystal Growth, 312, 457-460(2010).

  35. Xiaobing Li, Feifei Wang, Yanting Lin, Linhua Liu, Xiangyong Zhao, Haosu Luo and Di Lin, Electric-field-induced phase transitions of (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3O3-xPbTiO3 crystals studied by optical methods, Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter. 21, 335902(2009).

  36. Xiaobing Li, Xiangyong Zhao, Yaojin Wang, Feifei Wang, Chao Chen, Haosu Luo, Study of the dipole rotation path of BaTiO3 single crystal based on dielectric properties in structure phase transition, Acta Physica Sinica, 58, 4225-4229(2009).

  37. Linhua Liu, Xiaobing Li, Xiao Wu, Yaojin Wang, Wenning Di, Di Lin, Xiangyong Zhao, Haosu Luo, Dielectric, ferroelectric, and pyroelectric characterization of Mn-doped 0.74 Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.26PbTiO3 crystals for infrared detection applications, Applied Physics Letters, 95,19(2009).

  38. Wenwei Ge, Hong Liu, Xiangyong Zhao, Xiaobing Li, Xiaoming Pan, Di Lin, Haiqing Xu, Xiangping Jiang & Haosu Luo, Orientation dependence of electrical properties of 0.96Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-0.04BaTiO3 lead-free piezoelectric single crystal, Applied Physics A, 95, 761-767(2009).

  39. Wenwei Ge, Hong Liu, Xiangyong Zhao, Bijun Fang, Xiaobing Li, Feifei Wang, Dan Zhou, Ping Yu, Xiaoming Pan, Di Lin, Crystal growth and high piezoelectric performance of 0.95Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-0.05BaTiO3 lead-free ferroelectric materials, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 41,115403(2008).

  40. Xiaobing Li, Bing Teng, Degao Zhong, Xiaodong Lu, Yan Zhuang, Point-seed growth and defects of KDP crystal, Journal of Synthetic Crystals, 35, 858-62(2006).

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E-mail:   xiaobing@usst.edu.cn

Address: 516 Jungong Road, Shanghai, Yangpu, 200093, China