Theory and analysis of electrode size optimization for capacitive microfabricated ultrasonic transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1364-1374

  Bozkurt, Ayhari ^a   Ladabaum, Igal ^a   Atalar, Abdullah ^b   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF SOLIDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSTATICS; OPTIMIZATION;

CAPACITATIVE MICROFABRICATED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; LOSSLESS BUTTERWORTH NETWORK;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0033310090     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.808859     Document Type: Article

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