Fabrication and characterization of high frequency phased arrays for NDE imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7649, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jiang, Xiaoning ^a   Snook, Kevin ^b   Liu, Ruibin ^c   Geng, Xuecang ^c   Hackenberger, Wesley S ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRS TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

^c Blatek Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

high frequency ultrasound; NDE; NDT; PC MUT; phased array; single crystal piezoelectrics

Indexed keywords

1-3 COMPOSITES; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; CENTER FREQUENCY; ELEMENT ARRAY; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH UNIFORMITY; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; PHASED ARRAYS; PMN-PT SINGLE CRYSTAL; SINGLE CRYSTAL PIEZOELECTRICS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SILICON CARBIDE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ULTRASONICS;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 77953391689     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.847624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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4. X. N. Jiang, K. Snook, C. Hu, X. Geng, R. Liu, J. Welter, K. Shung, and W. Hackenberger, "A 35 MHz PCMUT Phased Array for NDE Ultrasound", SPIE Smart Materials and Structures and NDE, 2009.