Integrated Silicon-PVF2 Acoustic Transducer Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1979, Pages 1921-1931

  Swartz, Robert G ^a   Plummer, James D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0018766463     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1979.19797     Document Type: Article

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