• DocumentCode
    620972
  • Title

    Temperature and humidity characterization of air-coupled piezocomposite transducers

  • Author

    Costa, D.J. ; Tayra, V. ; Segura, L.E. ; Freijo, F.M.E. ; Buiochi, F.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Mechatron. Eng., Escola Politenica da Univ. de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7-10 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    2518
  • Lastpage
    2520
  • Abstract
    Temperature and humidity are present in almost all environmental conditions and they exert influences in the transducer performance. This study emphasizes the influences of temperature and humidity in two types of air-coupled piezocomposite. It presents the reliability and bandwidth stability of the transducer under temperature and humidity variations.
  • Keywords
    humidity measurement; piezoelectric transducers; temperature measurement; ultrasonic transducers; aircoupled piezocomposite transducers; environmental conditions; humidity characterization; reliability; temperature characterization; ultrasound transducer; Acoustics; Bandwidth; Ceramics; Frequency-domain analysis; Humidity; Transducers; Ultrasonic imaging;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2012 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Dresden
  • ISSN
    1948-5719
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4561-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ULTSYM.2012.0630
  • Filename
    6562507