Airborne ultrasonic phased arrays using ferroelectrets: A new fabrication approach

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 848-858

  Ealo, Joao L ^a,b   Camacho, Jorge J ^a   Fritsch, Carlos ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BEAMS; ACOUSTIC IMAGES; ACTIVE MATERIAL; AIR-COUPLED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; AIRBORNE ULTRASONICS; ARBITRARY SHAPE; ARRAY ELEMENTS; DEFLECTION ANGLES; DEVELOPABLE SURFACES; DISCRETIZATION; FABRICATION PROCESS; FERROELECTRETS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GRATING LOBES; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LINEAR ARRAYS; MECHANICAL CONNECTIONS; MULTI-ELEMENT; MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; MULTIELEMENT ARRAY; NEW CONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ONE STEP; PHASED ARRAYS; PULSE-ECHO MODE; SIDELOBE LEVELS; ULTRASONIC BEAMS;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67650671897     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1108     Document Type: Article

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