• DocumentCode
    3227738
  • Title

    Metal-polymer multilayer absorber for ultrasonic transducers

  • Author

    Toda, Minoru ; Thompson, Mitchell

  • Author_Institution
    Meas. Specialties Inc., Hampton, VA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-21 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    840
  • Lastpage
    843
  • Abstract
    Details of a metal-polymer multilayer absorber for ultrasonic transducers have been investigated. Multiple copper layers with pre-applied adhesive provided attenuation of 220dB/cm with an impedance of 4MRayl and a velocity of 890m/s at 3MHz. These results agreed with design theory and it was shown that the attenuation was high enough to be useful as a backing absorber ultrasonic transducers in the MHz range made with piezoelectric ceramic materials.
  • Keywords
    conducting polymers; copper; multilayers; ultrasonic transducers; Cu; adhesive; frequency 3 MHz; impedance; metal-polymer multilayer absorber; piezoelectric ceramics; ultrasonic transducers; Acoustics; Attenuation; Copper; Impedance; Mathematical model; Nonhomogeneous media; backing absorber; desgn theory; metal-polymer; multilayer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2011 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • ISSN
    1948-5719
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1253-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0205
  • Filename
    6293289