Multilayer Piezoelectric Ceramics for Two-Dimensional Array Transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 761-771

  Goldberg, Richard L ^a   Smith, Stephen W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; CAPACITANCE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LOSSES; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SUPERLATTICES; THICK FILM CIRCUITS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CIRCUITRY; INSERTION LOSS; MULTILAYER CERAMIC; MULTILAYER PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ARRAY TRANSDUCERS;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0028500855     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.308512     Document Type: Article

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