Sound-diffracting flap in the ear of a bat generates spatial information

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Müller, Rolf ^a   Lu, Hongwang ^a   Buck, John R ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; FREQUENCY BANDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

PINNA STRUCTURES; SOUND DIFFRACTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 40849092724     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.108701     Document Type: Article

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