Design of logarithmically spaced constant-directivity transducer arrays

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 497-507

  Van Der Wal, Menno ^a,b   Start, Evert W ^a,c   De Vries, Diemer ^a,c,d,e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c Delft University of Technology ^*  (Netherlands)

^d Laboratory of Seismics and Acoustics

^e AES Netherlands Section

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FREQUENCIES; LOUDSPEAKERS; MICROPHONES;

FREQUENCY INDEPENDENCE; LOGARITHMIC SPACING; TRANSDUCER ARRAYS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

EID: 0030171295     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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