Performance and characterization of high frequency linear arrays

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 105-108

  Lukacs, Marc ^a   Yin, Jianhua ^a   Pang, Guofeng ^a   Garcia, Richard ^a   Cherin, Emmanuel ^a   Williams, Ross ^a   Foster, F Stuart ^a   Mehi, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Sonics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

High frequency; Linear array; Transducer

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROPHONES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROMACHINING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ARRAY ELEMENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY LINEAR ARRAYS; LINEAR ARRAYS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33847243676     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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