Piezoelectric two-layer stacks of cellular polypropylene ferroelectrets: Transducer response at audio and ultrasound frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1601-1605

  Wegener, Michael ^b,c   Bergweiler, Steffen ^b,d,e,f   Wirges, Werner ^b,c   Pucher, Andreas ^b   Tuncer, Enis ^a,b,c   Gerhard Multhaupt, Reimund ^a,b,c,g,h  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c Scientific Staff ^*

^d German Acoustical Society (DEGA)   (Germany)

^e Audio Engineering Society (AES)

^f School of Audio Engineering   (Germany)

^g Information Technology Society (ITG)   (Germany)

^h Information Technology Society (ITG)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRETS; QUADRATIC RESPONSE; TRANSDUCER LAYERS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; THIN FILMS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 27644573379     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1516033     Document Type: Article

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