Picture of boy being examining by doctor at a tuberculosis sanatorium

Understanding our future through Open Access research about our past...

Strathprints makes available scholarly Open Access content by researchers in the Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare (CSHHH), based within the School of Humanities, and considered Scotland's leading centre for the history of health and medicine.

Research at CSHHH explores the modern world since 1800 in locations as diverse as the UK, Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe. Areas of specialism include contraception and sexuality; family health and medical services; occupational health and medicine; disability; the history of psychiatry; conflict and warfare; and, drugs, pharmaceuticals and intoxicants.

Explore the Open Access research of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. Or explore all of Strathclyde's Open Access research...

Image: Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. Wellcome Collection - CC-BY.

Strathprints

Micromachining of a piezocomposite transducer using a copper vapour laser

Farlow, R. and Galbraith, W. and Knowles, M. and Hayward, G. (2001) Micromachining of a piezocomposite transducer using a copper vapour laser. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 48 (3). pp. 639-640. ISSN 0885-3010

Full text not available in this repository. Request a copy from the Strathclyde author

Abstract

A 1-3 piezocomposite transducer with front face dimensions of 2×2 mm has been micromachined using a copper vapor laser. The device consists of PZT5A piezoceramic pillars with a 65-μm pitch suspended in a low viscosity thermosetting polymer. The kerf width is 13 μm, and the transducer thickness is 170 μm, making the device suitable for ultrasonic reception at frequencies close to 10 MHz.

Item type: Article
ID code: 7100
Keywords: laser beam machining, lead compounds, micromachining, piezoceramics, ultrasonic transducers, Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering, Instrumentation, Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Subjects: Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Department: Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Depositing user: Strathprints Administrator
Date deposited: 04 Nov 2008
Last modified: 03 Jan 2019 11:31
URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/7100
Export data:
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)