Piezoelectric thick bismuth titanate/lead zirconate titanate composite film transducers for smart NDE of metals

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 951-956

  Kobayashi, M ^a   Jen, C K ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BANDWIDTH; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; DAMPING; ELECTRODES; PERMITTIVITY; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOL-GELS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

DAMPING ELEMENTS; MULTILAYER COATINGS; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC MATERIALS; ZIRCONATE TITANATE;

THICK FILMS;

EID: 4043125406     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/13/4/033     Document Type: Article

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