An ultrasonic Gaussian transducer and its diffraction field: Theory and practice

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1018-1026

  Huang, Dehua ^a,b,d   Breazeale, Mack A ^a,c,d,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^d ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e Institute of Acoustics (GB)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY; HUYGENS' THEOREM; RAYLEIGH SURFACE INTEGRAL;

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FREQUENCIES;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33744738568     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1632691     Document Type: Article

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