Chromatic aberration of an air-coupled ultrasonic fresnel zone-plate

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 242-246

  Schindel, David W ^a   Bashford, Andy G ^b   Hutchins, D A ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b University of Warwick ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CAPACITANCE; MICROMACHINING; PHOTODETECTORS;

AIR-COUPLED ULTRASONIC FRESNEL ZONE-PLATES;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0032762686     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.741541     Document Type: Article

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