Functionally graded piezoceramic ultrasonic transducers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1627-1631

  Samadhiya, Ritesh ^a   Mukherjee, Abhijit ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND FREQUENCY SPECTRUM; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCES; PIEZOELECTRIC CONSTANT; SYMPATHETIC PULSES;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33846075271     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/15/6/014     Document Type: Article

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