The Design of Efficient Broad-Band Piezoelectric Transducers

IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1978, Pages 115-125

  Desilets, Charles S ^a   Fraser, John D ^a   Kino, Gordon S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIEZOELECTRICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSDUCER;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0017904863     PISSN: 00189537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-SU.1978.31001     Document Type: Article

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