Flexible Ultrasonic Transducers Incorporating Piezoelectric Fibres

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1999-2009

  Harvey, Gerald ^a   Gachagan, Anthony ^b   MacKersie, John W ^b   McCunnie, Thomas ^b   Banks, Robert ^c  

^a ROLLS ROYCE PLC   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c WEIDLINGER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE ARRAYS; COMPOSITE ELEMENT; CONVENTIONAL MANUFACTURING; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; FIBER COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FLEXIBLE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; FREQUENCY RANGES; IMPEDANCE SPECTRUM; LOW FREQUENCY; MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES; MATRIX ARRAYS; PIEZOCERAMIC FIBERS; PIEZOCOMPOSITE ELEMENTS; PIEZOCOMPOSITES; PIEZOELECTRIC FIBRES; PULSE ECHOES; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT;

ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

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EID: 70350168056     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1276     Document Type: Article

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