Thickness design, fabrication, and evaluation of 100-MHz polyurea ultrasonic transducer

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2175-2188

  Nakazawa, Marie ^a   Tabaru, Masaya ^a   Aoyagi, Takahiro ^a   Nakamura, Kentaro ^a   Ueha, Sadayuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ELECTRODES; B-MODE IMAGING; DEPOSITION EQUIPMENT; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; OUTER LAYER; POLYIMIDE LAYERS; SOUND PRESSURES; UNDER WATER;

ALUMINUM; FABRICATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

TRANSDUCERS;

POLYMER; POLYUREA; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; ONION; TRANSDUCER; DEVICES;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONIONS; POLYMERS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WATER;

EID: 84884793772     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2808     Document Type: Article

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