Planar microphone based on piezoelectric electrospun poly(γ-benzyl- α,L-glutamate) nanofibers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Ren, Kailiang ^a   West, James E ^a   Michael Yu, S ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; DIAPHRAGMS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; NANOFIBERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EASY FABRICATION; ELECTROSPUNS; HIGH TEMPERATURE USE; PRESSURE MICROPHONES; SEMI-ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; SINGLE LAYER; VELOCITY RESPONSE;

MICROPHONES;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; NANOFIBER; POLY-GAMMA-BENZYL-L-GLUTAMATE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID;

ACOUSTICS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MOTION; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

ACOUSTICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NANOFIBERS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 84903139549     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4874356     Document Type: Article

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