Optimization of the transmitting characteristics of a Tonpilz-type transducer by proper choice of impedance matching layersa

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 747-752

  Crombrugge, Michel Van ^a   Thompson, William ^b  

^a Ninofsesteenweg ^*  (Belgium)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BANDWIDTH; IMPEDANCE MATCHING LAYERS; NONLINEAR GOAL PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM; PIEZOCERAMIC DISK; TRANSMITTING CHARACTERISTCS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0022013762     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.392344     Document Type: Article

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5. M. Van Crombrugge, “Optimization of the Transmitting Characteristics of a Tonpilz-Type Transducer by Proper Choice of Impedance Matching Layers,” M.S. thesis, The Penn. State University (December 1983).
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