Modeling 1–3 Composite Piezoelectrics: Thickness-Mode Oscillations

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 40-47

  Smith, Wallace Arden ^a   Auld, Bertram A ^b  

^a OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATIONS;

COMPOSITE PIEZOELECTRICS MODELING; THICKNESS-MODE OSCILLATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING TRANSDUCERS; VOLUME FRACTION CERAMIC;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0026062827     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.67833     Document Type: Article

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