A 20 MHz single-element ultrasonic probe using 0.91Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.09PbTiO3 single crystal

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1071-1076

  Saitoh, Shiroh ^a   Kohayashi, Tsnyoshi ^a   Harada, Kouichi ^a   Shimanuki, Senji ^a   Yamashita, Yohachi ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CERAMIC PRODUCTS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; LEAD COMPOUNDS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PROBES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

LONGITUDINAL COUPLING FACTOR; SELF FLUX METHOD;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0032117269     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.710590     Document Type: Article

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