Comparison of the frequency and physical nature of the lowest order parasitic mode in single crystal and ceramic 2-2 and 1-3 piezoelectric composite transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1503-1512

  Robertson, David ^b   Hayward, Gordon ^a,b   Gachagan, Anthony ^a,b   Murray, Victor ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c Alba Ultrasound   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RESONANCE; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

LAMB WAVE ACTIVITY; PARASITIC RESONANT ACTIVITY; PIEZOCRYSTAL COMPOSITES; PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITE TRANSDUCERS;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33747418575     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1665108     Document Type: Article

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