Applications of Micromachined Capacitance Transducers in Air-Coupled Ultrasonics and Nondestructive Evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 51-58

  Schindel, D W ^a   Hutchins, D A ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MICROMACHINING; PERFORMANCE; SURFACE WAVES; SURFACES; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

CAPACITANCE TRANSDUCERS; LAMB WAVES; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SURFACE PROFILING; TRANSDUCTION;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0029218907     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.368313     Document Type: Article

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