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Acoustic transducer for acoustic microscopy

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7266217
A shear acoustic transducer-lens system is described in which a shear polarized piezoelectric material excites shear polarized waves at one end of a buffer rod having a lens at the other end which excites longitudinal waves in a coupling medium by mode conversion at selected locations on the lens. 9 figs.
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-84ER45157
Assignee:
Leland Stanford Junior Univ., CA (United States)
Patent Number(s):
US 4909082; A
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-281941
OSTI ID:
7266217
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English