Multilayer transducer transfer matrix formalism

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1300-1311

  Bloomfield, Philip E ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTILAYERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

MULTILAYER PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRIC LOSSES; TRANSFER MATRIX;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0036708542     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2002.1041547     Document Type: Article

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