Use of a Conical Axicon as a Surface Acoustic Wave Focusing Device

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 53-63

  Atalar, Abdullah ^a   Köymen, Hayrettin ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONIC WAVES - FOCUSING;

CONICAL AXICON; SAW FOCUSING DEVICE; ULTRASONIC AXICONS;

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 0023139966     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-UFFC.1987.26911     Document Type: Article

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