The design, construction and application of a large aperture lens-less line-focus PVDF transducer

Ultrasonics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 641-647

  Xiang, D ^a,b   Hsu, N N ^a   Blessing, G V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Green's function; Materials characterization; Transducers

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHARACTERIZATION; DESIGN; EPOXY RESINS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; PLASTIC FILMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

APERTURE LENSLESS TRANSDUCERS; BULK WAVE TRANSIT TIMES; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE TRANSDUCERS; SURFACE WAVE SPEEDS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0030216864     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-624X(96)00058-3     Document Type: Article

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