Enhanced bandwidth ultrasound transducers with multiple piezoelectric polymer layers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 1733, Issue , 1992, Pages 297-306

  Lewin, Peter A ^a   Zhang, Qian ^a   Bloomfield, Philip E ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Materials Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BINARY SEQUENCES; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; COMPOSITE TRANSDUCERS; ENHANCED BANDWIDTHS; MULTIPLE LAYERS; PIEZOELECTRIC POLYMERS; TRANSDUCER DESIGN; ULTRASOUND IMAGING TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 85067478171     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.130607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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