Screen-printed Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thick films for ultrasonic medical imaging applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4587, Issue , 2001, Pages 195-200

  Kosec, Marija ^a   Holc, Janez ^a   Levassort, Franck ^a   Tran Huu Hue, Louis Pascal ^a   Lethiecq, Marc ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Low temperature sintering; Medical transducers; PZT; Thick films

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); MEDICAL IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCREEN PRINTING; SINTERING; SUBSTRATES;

FILM THICKNESS;

THICK FILMS;

EID: 0035768594     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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