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Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) speakers are compact, scalable alternatives to traditional voice coil speakers, promising improved sound quality through precise semiconductor manufacturing. This review provides an overview of the…
In this paper we present a passive and cost-effective method for increasing the frequency range of ultrasound MEMS microphone arrays when using beamforming techniques. By applying a 3D-printed construction that reduces the acoustic aperture…
This paper presents a large 6~m x 3~m aperture 7200 MEMS microphone array. The array is designed so that sub-arrays with optimized point spread functions can be used for beamforming and thus, enable the research of source directivity in…
Microphone arrays are usually assumed to have rigid geometries: the microphones may move with respect to the sound field but remain fixed relative to each other. However, many useful arrays, such as those in wearable devices, have sensors…
Acoustic beamforming aims to focus acoustic signals to a specific direction and suppress undesirable interferences from other directions. Despite its flexibility and steerability, beamforming with circular microphone arrays suffers from…
We report in this paper the design, fabrication and experimental characterization of a piezoelectric MEMS microgenerator. This device scavenges the energy of ambient mechanical vibrations characterized by frequencies in the range of 1 kHz.…
Acoustic beamforming with a microphone array represents an adequate technology for remote acoustic surveillance, as the system has no mechanical parts and it has moderate size. However, in order to accomplish real implementation, several…
This work reports the procedure for modeling piezoelectric acoustic resonators and filters at millimeter wave (mmWave). Different from conventional methods for lower frequency piezoelectric devices, we include both acoustic and…
It is often required to extract the sound of an objective instrument played in concert with other instruments. Microphone array is one of the effective ways to enhance a sound from a specific direction. However it is not effective in an…
A theoretical study is performed to analyze the directional response of different types of microphone array designs. 1-D (linear) and 2-D (planar) microphone array types are considered, and the delay and sum beamforming and conventional…
Microphone array post-filters have demonstrated their ability to greatly reduce noise at the output of a beamformer. However, current techniques only consider a single source of interest, most of the time assuming stationary background…
This paper presents a comprehensive review of cardiorespiratory auscultation sensing devices (i.e., stethoscopes), which is useful for understanding the theoretical aspects and practical design notes. In this paper, we first introduce the…
We propose a novel information-theoretic approach for evaluating microphone arrays that relies on the array physics and geometry rather than the underlying beamforming algorithm. The analogy between Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO)…
Over the past few years, microelectromechanical system (MEMS) based on-chip resonators have shown significant potential for sensing and high frequency signal processing applications. This is due to their excellent features like small size,…
We present a system for localizing sound sources in a room with several ad-hoc microphone arrays. Each circular array performs direction of arrival (DOA) estimation independently using commercial software. The DOAs are fed to a fusion…
Beamforming techniques are popular in speech-related applications due to their effective spatial filtering capabilities. Nonetheless, conventional beamforming techniques generally depend heavily on either the target's direction-of-arrival…
Speech enhancement is a fundamental challenge in signal processing, particularly when robustness is required across diverse acoustic conditions and microphone setups. Deep learning methods have been successful for speech enhancement, but…
Enhancing the user's own-voice for head-worn microphone arrays is an important task in noisy environments to allow for easier speech communication and user-device interaction. However, a rarely addressed challenge is the change of the…
The manipulation of acoustic waves plays an important role in a wide range of applications. Currently, acoustic wave manipulation typically relies on either acoustic metasurfaces or phased array transducers. The elements of metasurfaces are…
Piezoelectric micro-electro-mechanical systems have significant market potential owing to their superior capabilities of transduction to those of standard capacitive and piezoresistive devices. However, piezoelectric films are often lossy,…