Miniature piezoelectric hollow sphere transducers (BBs)

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1067-1076

  Alkoy, Sedat ^a   Dogan, Aydin ^a   Hladky, Anne Christine ^a   Langlet, Philippe ^a   Cochran, Joe K ^a   Newnham, Robert E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCIES; HYDROPHONES; POWDERS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SINTERING;

COAXIAL NOZZLE PROCESS; HYDROSTATIC PIEZOELECTRIC VOLTAGE COEFFICIENTS;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0031235159     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.655632     Document Type: Article

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