Design of a differential electromagnetic transducer for use in IME system

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1231-1237

  Song, Byung Seop ^a   Kim, Min Kyu ^a   Yoon, Young Ho ^a   Lee, Sang Heun ^b   Cho, Jin Ho ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hearing aid; Implantable middle ear; Sound vibration; Transducer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HEARING AIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PLATINUM; SILICON; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

DIFFERENTIAL ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSDUCERS (DET); ELECTRIC SIGNALS; IMPLANTABLE MIDDLE EAR (IME); SOUND VIBRATIONS;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 2642587420     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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