Performance of concave transducers in acoustic microscopy

Author

Sugawara, Y. ; Kushibiki, J. ; Chubachi, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

fYear

1988

fDate

2-5 Oct 1988

Firstpage

751

Abstract

The performance of a scanning reflection acoustic microscope system using concave transducers has been investigated numerically and experimentally. V(z) characteristics that contain information about leaky surface acoustic waves (LSAWs) at the water/sample boundary can be used to analyze the performance of the system. Numerical analyses of V(z) curves are made via the transfer function of the system using a concave transducer based on field theory, taking a fused quartz as a typical sample. The experiments are performed at a frequency of 375 MHz. It is revealed that the amplitude response of the V(z) curve contains a rapid periodic variation in the defocus region that is not directly related to the propagation properties of LSAW, whereas the phase response of the V(z) curve depends strongly on the propagation properties of LSAW

Keywords

acoustic microscopy; acoustic transducers; 375 MHz; LSAWs; acoustic microscopy; concave transducers; fused quartz; leaky surface acoustic waves; phase response; propagation; scanning reflection acoustic microscope; transfer function; Acoustic reflection; Acoustic transducers; Acoustic waves; Information analysis; Microscopy; Numerical analysis; Performance analysis; Surface acoustic waves; Transfer functions; Water;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 1988. Proceedings., IEEE 1988

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.1988.49478

Filename

49478