Coupling mechanism of electromagnetic acoustical transducers for ultrasonic generation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2693-2701

  Jian, X ^a   Dixon, S ^a   Edwards, R S ^a   Reed, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIZATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

COUPLING MECHANISM; ELECTROMAGNETIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS (EMAT); EQUIVALENT COIL CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS;

TRANSDUCERS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC ACOUSTICAL TRANSDUCER; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORCE; IMPEDANCE; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33646460479     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2184288     Document Type: Article

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