Ultrasonic Transducer as a Black-Box: Equivalent Circuit Synthesis and Matching Network Design

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 694-703

  Capineri, Lorenzo ^a   Masotti, Leonardo ^a   Rinieri, Marco ^a   Rocchi, Santina ^a  

^a Dipartimento Imgegneria Elettronica ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG COMPUTERS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

BLACK BOX; CONSTANT RESISTANCE NETWORKS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0027695344     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.248213     Document Type: Article

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