Design and fabrication of PZN-7%PT single crystal high frequency angled needle ultrasound transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1394-1399

  Zhou, Qifa ^b   Wu, Dawei ^b   Jin, Jing ^c   Hu, Chang Hong ^b   Xu, Xiaochen ^b   Williams, Jay ^b   Cannata, Jonathan M ^a,b   Lim, Leongchew ^c   Shung, K Kirk ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Microfine Materials Technologies P/L   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE SIZES; HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF); ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; NEEDLES; PLATINUM; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

TRANSDUCERS;

LEAD; LEAD ZINC NIOBATE TITANATE; NIOBIUM; TITANIUM; ZINC;

CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LEAD; NEEDLES; NIOBIUM; TITANIUM; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ZINC;

EID: 44949236952     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.804     Document Type: Article

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