A theoretical study on Love wave sensors in a structure with multiple viscoelastic layers on a piezoelectric substrate

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Jiansheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Love wave; multiple layers; sensitivity; viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; QUARTZ; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VISCOELASTICITY;

INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCER; LOVE WAVE; MULTIPLE LAYERS; PIEZOELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; PROPAGATION VELOCITIES; SENSITIVITY; VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL; VISCOELASTIC;

SENSORS;

EID: 84902845795     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/23/7/075015     Document Type: Article

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