Multilayer piezoelectric resonators for medical ultrasound transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 620-622

  Greenstein, Michael ^a,b   Kumar, Umesh ^a,b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b AVX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; FABRICATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTILAYERS; PERMITTIVITY; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; RESONATORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

COUPLING COEFFICIENT; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS; MULTILAYER RESONATORS; MULTILAYER TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATORS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0030196641     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.503721     Document Type: Article

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