Airborne phased array for airborne applications based on celular polymer

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 727-732

  Degel, C ^a   Schuck, H ^a   Knoll, T ^a   Bauerfeld, F ^a   Heinz, M ^a   Haberer, W ^a   Fonfara, H ^a   Lemor, R ^a   Elling, B ^b   Danz, R ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air transducer; Beamformer; Electrode structuring; Focussing; Phased array; Porous polymer; Scanning; Steering

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC SCANNING; AIR TRANSDUCER; AIRBORNE APPLICATIONS; ARRAY STRUCTURES; BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; BEAM STEERING; BEAMFORMER; CIRCULAR ARRAYS; DEFOCUSING; ELECTRODE STRUCTURING; FOCUSING CHARACTERISTICS; FOCUSSING; MOVING PARTS; PHASED ARRAY; PHASED ARRAYS; PIEZO-ELECTRIC EFFECTS; POROUS POLYMER; PROFILE MEASUREMENTS; ROBOT GUIDANCE; SCANNING; SINGLE-ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; STEERING; ULTRASONIC PHASED ARRAYS; WORKING FREQUENCIES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 48149110648     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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