Dispersion of an acoustic pulse passing through a large-grained polycrystalline film

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4491-4499

  Every, A G ^a   Maznev, A A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS;

GAUSSIAN BROADENING; HEXAGONAL CRYSTALS; LOCAL GRAIN ORIENTATION; LOGARITHMIC SINGULARITY; PICOSECOND ULTRASONICS; POLYCRYSTALLINE FILM; POWER-LAW SINGULARITY; SHORT ACOUSTIC PULSE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84878552136     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4714353     Document Type: Article

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