Hydroacoustical emitter based on zero-order antisymmetric Lamb wave in a piezoelecrtric plate

A piezoelectric plate supporting the propagation of antisymmetric zero-order (A0) Lamb wave is proposed to be used as a hydroacoustical waveguide emitter that transmits a bulk acoustic wave into a liquid. The emitter's directional pattern has been theoretically and experimentally examined for a...

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Published inJournal of applied physics Vol. 112; no. 12
Main Authors Kuznetsova, Iren E., Zaitsev, Boris D., Borodina, Irina A., Teplykh, Andrey A., Kolesov, Vladimir V., Sknarya, Anatolii V., Petrova, Nadezhda G., Nosov, Aleksander V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 15.12.2012
Subjects
Acoustics
Beams (radiation)
Emittance
Lamb waves
Liquids
Piezoelectricity
Scanning
Wave propagation
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Summary:A piezoelectric plate supporting the propagation of antisymmetric zero-order (A0) Lamb wave is proposed to be used as a hydroacoustical waveguide emitter that transmits a bulk acoustic wave into a liquid. The emitter's directional pattern has been theoretically and experimentally examined for a frequency band of 89–107 kHz. An angular acoustic beam scanning was revealed to be realized by varying the A0 wave frequency. It is shown that, unlike complicated emitting systems of phased array type, this nonmechanical scanning could be realized in a simple device. The obtained results are in a good agreement with the theoretical ones.
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ISSN:0021-8979
1089-7550
DOI:10.1063/1.4769303