Title :
Integrated piezoelectric plate acoustic waves transducers
Author :
Wu, K.-T. ; Jen, C.K. ; Kobayashi, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC
Abstract :
A piezoelectric film has been fabricated by a sol-gel spray technique directly onto an edge of a 2 mm-thick aluminium plate as an integrated ultrasonic transducer and used to detect line defects at a distance using mode converted symmetric and shear horizontal waves at 150degC.
Keywords :
aluminium; piezoelectric transducers; sol-gel processing; spray coating techniques; ultrasonic transducers; Al; acoustic waves transducers; aluminium plate; integrated piezoelectric plate; line defects; mode converted symmetric waves; piezoelectric film; shear horizontal waves; sol-gel spray technique; temperature 150 degC; ultrasonic transducer;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20080936
