Harmonic distortion in silicon condenser microphones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1582-1587

  Pedersen, Michael ^a   Olthuis, Wouter ^a   Bergveld, Piet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

EID: 0030768288     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420070     Document Type: Article

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