Techniques for suppressing spurious resonant modes in 1:3 composite transducers

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 651-655

  Hossack, J A ^a   Auld, B A ^a   Batha, H D ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FMI ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; TRANSDUCERS;

BAND EDGE; COMPOSITE TRANSDUCERS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; PERIODIC ARRAYS; RESONANT MODE; SPATIALLY VARYING MATERIAL PROPERTIES; THICKNESS MODES;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 84951220209     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.1991.234243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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