Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer design for high power transmission

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 326-338

  Bayram, Baris ^a   Oralkan, Ömer ^a   Ergun, A Sanli ^a   Hæggström, Edward ^a   Yaralioglu, Goksen G ^a   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS (CMUT); DIFFRACTION LOSSES; HIGH POWER TRANSMISSION; REAL-TIME IMAGING;

ATTENUATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROPHONES; MICROMACHINING; OPTIMIZATION; POWER TRANSMISSION; SAMPLING;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 15844395365     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1406558     Document Type: Article

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