Air-coupled piezoelectric transducers with active polypropylene foam matching layers

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5996-6013

  Álvarez Arenas, Tomás E Gómez ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air coupled transducers; Air coupled ultrasound; Ferroelectret film; Polypropylene piezoelectric foam

Indexed keywords

1-3 CONNECTIVITIES; AIR-COUPLED; AIR-COUPLED ULTRASOUNDS; FERROELECTRET; NARROW-BAND EXCITATION; PIEZOELECTRIC RESPONSE; POLYPROPYLENE FOAMS; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84878063511     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130505996     Document Type: Article

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