Design of piezocomposites for ultrasonic transducers

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 155-162

  Smlth, Wallace Arden ^a   Shaulov, Avner A ^b   Auld, B A ^c  

^a OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84963164736     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150198908015735     Document Type: Article

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