New low acoustic impedance piezoelectric material for broadband transducer applications

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1153-1156

  Lethiecq, Marc ^a   Levassort, Franck ^a   Tran Huu Hue, Louis Pascal ^a   Alguero, Miguel ^b   Pardo, Lorena ^b   Bove, Torsten ^c   Ringgaard, Erling ^c   Wolny, Wanda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Ferroperm Piezoceramics A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Homogenization; Piezoelectricity; PZT; Transducers

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BANDWIDTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PERMITTIVITY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ANTIRESONANCE FREQUENCIES; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; HOMOGENIZATION; LINEAR REGRESSION;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 21644484239     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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