Single crystal naval transducer development

Author

Powers, J.M. ; Moffett, M.B. ; Nussbaum, F.

Author_Institution

Naval Underwater Syst. Center, Newport, RI, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

351

Abstract

Recently discovered families of piezoelectric Lead Magnesium Niobate/Lead Titariate (PMN-PT) and Lead Zinc Niobate/Lead Titanate (PZN-PT) single crystal materials have generated great interest in the Navy sonar community because of their high 33-mode coupling factor and large saturation strain, thereby potentially allowing sonar transducers with greatly increased bandwidth and power density. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is developing a prototype single crystal high power sonar transducer for potential naval applications. In addition to progress on the transducer development, measurements on the single crystal materials are presented

Keywords

acoustic transducers; naval engineering; piezoelectric materials; piezoelectric transducers; sonar; underwater acoustic propagation; 33-mode coupling factor; Naval Undersea Warfare Center; Navy sonar community; PMN-PT; PMN-PbTiO₃; PZN-PT; PbMgO3NbO3-PbTiO3; PbZnO₃NbO₃-PbTiO₃; naval applications; saturation strain; single crystal high power sonar transducer; single crystal materials; transducer development; Capacitive sensors; Crystalline materials; Magnesium; Niobium compounds; Piezoelectric materials; Piezoelectric transducers; Power generation; Sonar measurements; Titanium compounds; Zinc;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications of Ferroelectrics, 2000. ISAF 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 12th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1099-4734

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5940-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAF.2000.941570

Filename

941570