Analysis of harmonic distortion in electroacoustic transducers under indirect drive conditions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 297-314

  Sherman, Charles H ^a   Butler, John L ^a   Butler, Alexander L ^a  

^a Image Acoustics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC GENERATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

HARMONIC DISTORTION; INDIRECT DRIVE ANALYSIS; LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

LEAD;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0031033296     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418010     Document Type: Article

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