Fabrication of piezoelectric ceramic/polymer composite transducers using fused deposition of ceramics

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 124-28

  Lous, Gwenaëlle M ^a   Cornejo, Iván A ^a   McNulty, Thomas F ^a   Safari, Ahmad ^a   Danforth, Stephen C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; LEAD COMPOUNDS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; POWDERS; SINTERING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; POLYMER COMPOSITE TRANSDUCERS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0033748999     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2000.tb01159.x     Document Type: Article

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