The Design of Broad-Band Fluid-Loaded Ultrasonic Transducers

IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1979, Pages 385-393

  Goll, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

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ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0018542139     PISSN: 00189537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-SU.1979.31122     Document Type: Article

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