This has increased the demand for new ultrasound transducer technologies that can completely replace lead while achieving high performance.

A research team led by Dr. Byung Chul Lee at the Bionics Research Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), in collaboration with Prof. Jae-Woong Jeong at KAIST, Prof. Whal Lee at Seoul National University Hospital, and Prof. Pierre T. Khuri-Yakub at Stanford University, has developed a silicon-based disposable eco-friendly ultrasound patch.

The work is published in the journal Nature Communications.

This achievement marks the first realization of superior performance beyond conventional high-cost lead-based ultrasound transducers without using lead at all.