Miniature class V flextensional cymbal transducer with directional beam patterns: The double-driver

Ultrasonics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 91-95

  Zhang, J ^a   Hladky Hennion, A C ^b   Jack Hughes, W ^a   Newnham, R E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institut Superieur de l'Electronique et du Numerique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

FLEXTENSIONAL CYMBAL TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCER;

CERAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MINIATURIZATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0034741346     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(00)00055-X     Document Type: Article

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