New opportunities in ultrasonic transducers emerging from innovations in piezoelectric materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 1733, Issue , 1992, Pages 3-26

  Smith, Wallace Arden ^a  

^a OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM TITANATE; FERROELECTRIC CERAMICS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRIC THIN FILMS; FERROELECTRICITY; FILM GROWTH; FILM PREPARATION; LEAD TITANATE; LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ELECTRICAL ENERGY; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; PIEZOCERAMIC FIBERS; POLYVINYLIDENE DIFLUORIDE; RELAXOR FERROELECTRIC CERAMICS; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 85075791232     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.130585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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