An analytical study of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) with circular microplates has been carried out. The study comprises one-sided (single electrode back-plate) and two-sided (double electrode back-plate) systems, and derives universal correction factors for pull-in voltage and critical displacement to be used in lumped element model (LEM) analysis. We employ von Karman plate theory and the single-mode Galerkin decomposition method to solve the equations. Consequently, voltage-deflection relations have been derived. By comparing results from plate theory with LEM, it is concluded: (1) for the one-sided CMUT by neglecting geometrical nonlinearity, we find
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