Acoustically isolated paired air transducers for 50-, 100-, 200-, or 500-kHz applications

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1087-1100

  Lynnworth, Lawrence C ^a   Nguyen, Toan H ^a   Smart, Christopher D ^a   Khrakovsky, Oleg A ^a  

^a GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

AIR COUPLED MEASUREMENTS; SOLID PIEZOELECTRIC DISK;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0031232858     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.655634     Document Type: Article

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