TY - CHAP
T1 - Piezoelectricity and basic configurations for piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers
AU - Cochran, S.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Piezoelectricity underpins a very large proportion of the ultrasonic transducers in use and in development today. This chapter first reviews ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity in an ultrasonic context, particularly focusing on the constitutive equations, then describes the configurations of basic piezoelectric transducers in the form of single- and dual-element devices, arrays and Langevin transducers. Ancillary components within these structures are outlined, along with mathematical analysis where appropriate.
AB - Piezoelectricity underpins a very large proportion of the ultrasonic transducers in use and in development today. This chapter first reviews ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity in an ultrasonic context, particularly focusing on the constitutive equations, then describes the configurations of basic piezoelectric transducers in the form of single- and dual-element devices, arrays and Langevin transducers. Ancillary components within these structures are outlined, along with mathematical analysis where appropriate.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84903248508&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1533/9780857096302.1.3
DO - 10.1533/9780857096302.1.3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84903248508
SN - 9781845699895
T3 - Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
SP - 3
EP - 35
BT - Ultrasonic transducers
A2 - Nakamura, K.
PB - Woodhead Publishing Limited
CY - Cambridge
ER -