Novel horn designs for ultrasonic/sonic cleaning welding, soldering, cutting and drilling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4701, Issue , 2002, Pages 353-360

  Sherrit, Stewart ^a   Askins, Stephen A ^a   Gradziol, Mike ^a   Dolgin, Benjamin P ^a   Bao, Xiaoqi ^a   Chang, Zensheu ^a   Bar Cohen, Yoseph ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Materials; Folded horn; Inverse horn; Piezoelectric devices; Planetary exploration; Ultrasonic drilling; Ultrasonic sonic driller corer (USDC)

Indexed keywords

DRILLING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SOLDERING; ULTRASONIC CLEANING; ULTRASONIC CUTTING; WELDING;

ACTIVE MATERIALS; ULTRASONIC HORNS;

ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0036031081     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.474671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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