Broadband ultrasonic transducers using a LiNbO3 plate with a ferroelectric inversion layer

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1229-1233

  Nakamura, Kiyoshi ^a   Fukazawa, Kentaro ^a   Yamada, Ken ^a   Saito, Shigemi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

DOMAIN INVERSION; FERROELECTRIC INVERSION LAYER;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0036989222     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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