Acoustic transducer for acoustic microscopy

Patent · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:867304

Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T ^[1]; Chou, Ching H ^[1]

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1. Palo Alto, CA

A shear acoustic transducer-lens system 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.

• Research Organization: Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-84ER45157
• Assignee: Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, CA)
• Patent Number(s): US 4909082
• OSTI ID: 867304
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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acoustic
transducer
microscopy
shear
transducer-lens
polarized
piezoelectric
material
excites
waves
buffer
rod
lens
longitudinal
coupling
medium
mode
conversion
selected
locations
longitudinal waves
acoustic transducer
selected location
piezoelectric material
selected locations
coupling medium
shear polarized
longitudinal wave
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