Air entrapment in piezo-driven inkjet printheads

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1257-1265

  De Jong, Jos ^a   De Bruin, Gerrit ^a   Reinten, Hans ^b   Van Den Berg, Marc ^b   Wijshoff, Herman ^b   Versluis, Michel ^c   Lohse, Detlef ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b OCÉ TECHNOLOGIES B V   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; AIR ENTRAINMENT; DROP FORMATION; INK; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SIGNAL DISTORTION; VISUALIZATION;

CHANNEL ACOUSTICS; INKJET PRINTERS; JET FORMATION; PIEZOACTUATORS;

PRINTERS (COMPUTER);

INK;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 33748565653     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2216560     Document Type: Article

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