An acoustic rectifier

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 989-992

  Liang, B ^a,b   Guo, X S ^a   Tu, J ^a   Zhang, D ^a   Cheng, J C ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DIAGNOSIS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ENERGY FLUXES; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; MICROBUBBLE SUSPENSION; RECTIFYING EFFECT; THERMAL FLUXES; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 78649391306     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2881     Document Type: Article

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