• DocumentCode
    1242326
  • Title

    Integrated piezoelectric plate acoustic waves transducers

  • Author

    Wu, K.-T. ; Jen, C.K. ; Kobayashi, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC
  • Volume
    44
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    776
  • Lastpage
    777
  • Abstract
    A piezoelectric film has been fabricated by a sol-gel spray technique directly onto an edge of a 2 mm-thick aluminium plate as an integrated ultrasonic transducer and used to detect line defects at a distance using mode converted symmetric and shear horizontal waves at 150degC.
  • Keywords
    aluminium; piezoelectric transducers; sol-gel processing; spray coating techniques; ultrasonic transducers; Al; acoustic waves transducers; aluminium plate; integrated piezoelectric plate; line defects; mode converted symmetric waves; piezoelectric film; shear horizontal waves; sol-gel spray technique; temperature 150 degC; ultrasonic transducer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20080936
  • Filename
    4539035