WideBand Piezoelectric Polymer Acoustic Sources

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 175-185

  Lewin, Peter A ^a   Schafer, Mark E ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sonic Technologies Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATORS - CALIBRATION; ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS - PLASTICS APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES - DESIGN;

PIEZOELECTRIC POLYMER; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE (PVDF); PVDF TRANSMITTER; ULTRASOUND DOSIMETRY;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0023982186     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.4168     Document Type: Article

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