Acoustic impedance matching of piezoelectric transducers to the air

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 624-633

  Álvarez Arenas, Tomás E Gómez ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSDUCERS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

FREQUENCY TRANSDUCERS; MATCHING LAYERS; MEMBRANE FILTERS;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 2942592741     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1320834     Document Type: Article

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