A tri-modal directional transducer

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 658-665

  Butler, John L ^a   Butler, Alexander L ^a   Rice, Joseph A ^b,c  

^a Image Acoustics Inc   (United States)

^b Naval Command   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC CYLINDERS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; CERAMICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENSITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LASER; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

EID: 1042265155     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1639326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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