Background noise in piezoresistive, electret condenser, and ceramic microphones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3179-3187

  Zuckerwar, Allan J ^a   Kuhn, Theodore R ^a   Serbyn, Roman M ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRETS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROMACHINING; MICROPHONES;

PIEZORESISTIVE MICROPHONES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROPHONE; NOISE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0038621736     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1572147     Document Type: Article

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