Ultrasonic piezoceramic transducer modeling with VHDL-AMS: Application to ultrasound nonlinear parameter simulations

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1652-1661

  Guelaz, Rachid ^a,b   Kourtiche, Djilali ^a,b   Nadi, Mustapha ^b  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b INSTITUT JEAN LAMOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Ceramic; Nonlinear modeling; Piezoelectric; Ultrasonic; Very high speed integrated circuits (VHSIC) hardware description language analog and mixed signal (VHDL AMS)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; NONLINEAR MODELING; PIEZOCERAMIC TRANSDUCERS; VERY HIGH-SPEED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (VHSIC);

CERAMIC PRODUCTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33845642212     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.883090     Document Type: Article

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