Resonant characteristics of piezoelectric composites: Analysis of spurious modes in single and multi-element ultrasonic transducers

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1157-1160

  Reynolds, P ^a   Hyslop, J ^b   Hayward, G ^c  

^a WEIDLINGER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

^b Alba Ultrasound   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; POLYMERS; SUBSTRATES; VOLUME FRACTION;

LAMB WAVES; MULTI-ELEMENT ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PZFLEX;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0036995733     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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