Piezoelectric transformer structural modeling - A review

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1154-1170

  Yang, Jiashi ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR THEORY; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ROSEN TRANSFORMER;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 34347223251     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.369     Document Type: Article

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