Radiation impedance of an array of circular capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 969-976

  Senlik, Muhammed N ^a   Olcum, Selim ^a   Köymen, Hayrettin ^a   Atalar, Abdullah ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; AIRBORNE APPLICATIONS; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CELL SPACINGS; CIRCULAR MEMBRANES; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HEXAGONAL PATTERN; NONSYMMETRIC; PARALLEL RESONANCE; RADIATION IMPEDANCE; RADIATION RESISTANCE; VELOCITY PROFILES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

RADIATION;

EID: 77951038938     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1501     Document Type: Article

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