Air-coupled ultrasonic applications of ferroelectrets

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 370, Issue 1 PART 4, 2008, Pages 11-17

  Bovtun, Viktor ^a,b   Döring, Joachim ^a   Wegener, Michael ^c   Bartusch, Jürgen ^a   Beck, Uve ^a   Erhard, Anton ^a   Borisov, Vladimir ^d  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Air coupled ultrasonics; Electromechanical properties; Ferroelectrets; Non contact transducers

Indexed keywords

AIR-COUPLED; AIR-COUPLED ULTRASONICS; ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTY; FERROELECTRETS; NON-CONTACT;

FERROELECTRICITY; SONOCHEMISTRY; ULTRASONICS;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 75449084558     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150190802380243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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