UFFC April Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL SOCIETY

April 2007

VOLUME 54

NUMBER 4

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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128 KB	Information For Contributors. . .691

248 KB	A Multimedia Example . . .696 Multimedia-zipped

23 KB	Call For Papers: Special Issue on Applications of Ferroelectrics . . .697

23 KB	A Call For Papers: Special Issue on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound in Bone . . .698



LETTERS

112 KB	Comment on Y.-H. Hsu et al., “Electrical and Mechanical Fully Coupled Theory and Experimental Verification of Rosen-Type Piezoelectric Transformers” [See Reference [1]] J. Yang. . . 699

444 KB	Electromechanical Coupling Coefficient k₁₅ of Polycrystalline ZnO Films with the c-Axes Lie in the Substrate Plane T. Yanagitani, N. Mishima, M. Matsukawa, and Y. Watanabe. . . 701


PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

1.7 MB	Precise Trajectory Tracking of a Piezoactuator-Driven Stage Using an Adaptive Backstepping Control Scheme H.-J. Shieh and C.-H. Hsu. . . 705

1.4 MB	Characteristic Analysis and Design of a B₁₄ Rotary Ultrasonic Motor for a Robot Arm Taking the Contact Mechanism into Consideration J.-S. Rho, K.-I. Oh, H.-S. Kim, and H.-K. Jung. . . 715

	*Frequency Control*

650 KB	Design and Metrological Features of Microwave Synthesizers for Atomic Fountain Frequency Standard D. Chambon, M. Lours, F. Chapelet, S. Bize, M. E. Tobar, A. Clairon, and G. Santarelli. . . 729

1.1 MB	Noise Properties of Microwave Signals Synthesized with Femtosecond Lasers E. N. Ivanov, J. J. McFerran, S. A. Diddams, and L. Hollberg. . . 736

	*Medical Ultrasound*

2 MB	PSF Dedicated to Estimation of Displacement Vectors for Tissue Elasticity Imaging with Ultrasound H. Liebgott, J. E. Wilhjelm, J. Jensen, D. Vray, and P. Delachartre. . . 746

2.1 MB	Direct Comparison of Feature Tracking and Autocorrelation for Velocity Estimation G. R. Bashford and D. J. Robinson. . . 757

1.1 MB	Bandwidth and Resolution Enhancement Through Pulse Compression M. L. Oelze. . . 768

790 KB	Cystic Resolution: A Performance Metric for Ultrasound Imaging Systems K. Ranganathan and W. F. Walker. . . 782

1.6 MB	A Novel Phase Assignment Protocol and Driving System for a High-Density Focused Ultrasound Array R. E. Caulfield, X. Yin, J. Juste, and K. Hynynen. . . 793

	*Physical Acoustics*

1 MB	Influence of Surface Roughness of Bragg Reflectors on Resonance Characteristics of Solidly-Mounted Resonators C.-J. Chung, Y.-C. Chen, C.-C. Cheng, C.-L. Wei, and K.-S. Kao. . . 802

878 KB	Elastic Waves in a Fluid-Loaded, Semi-Infinite Axisymmetric Rod Y. Ai. . . 809

1.3 MB	Numerical Calculation of the Sound Field Focused by Acoustic Lens with an Arbitrary Axisymmetric Sound Speed Distribution X.-H. Yan, Y.-P. Zhang, K.-H. Liu, and Y. Liu. . . 823

285 KB	Analysis of a Rectangular Ceramic Plate in Electrically Forced Thickness-Twist Vibration As a Piezoelectric Transformer J. Yang, J. Liu, and J. Li. . . 830

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

1.8 MB	Wooden Panel Paintings Investigation: An Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Imaging Approach A. M. Siddiolo, L. D’Acquisto, A. R. Maeva, and R. G. Maev. . . 836

1.1 MB	Traveling-Wave Piezoelectric Linear Motor Part I: The Stator Design Y. Ting, L.-C. Chen, C.-C. Li, and J.-L. Huang. . . 847

1 MB	Traveling-Wave Piezoelectric Linear Motor Part II: Experiment and Performance Evaluation Y. Ting, C.-C. Li, L.-C. Chen, and C.-M. Yang. . . 854

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

712 KB	Side Radiation of Rayleigh Waves from Synchronous SAW Resonators O. Holmgren, T. Makkonen, J. V. Knuuttila, M. Kalo, V. P. Plessky, and W. Steichen. . . 861

871 KB	High-Frequency Surface Acoustic Waves Excited on Thin-Oriented LiNbO₃ Single-Crystal Layers Transferred Onto Silicon T. Pastureaud, M. Solal, B. Biasse, B. Aspar, J.-B. Briot, W. Daniau, W. Steichen, R. Lardat, V. Laude, A. Laëns, J.-M. Friedt, and S. Ballandras. . . 870


CORRESPONDENCE

274 KB	Weakly Nonlinear Behavior of a Plate Thickness-Mode Piezoelectric Transformer J. Yang, Z. Chen, Y. Hu, S. Jiang, and S. Guo. . . 877

241 KB	Mass Sensitivity of Thickness-Twist Modes in a Rectangular Piezoelectric Plate of Hexagonal Crystals J. Yang, Z. Chen, and Y. Hu. . . 882

243 KB	Propagation of Thickness-Twist Waves Through a Joint Between Two Semi-Infinite Piezoelectric Plates J. Yang, Z. Chen, and Y. Hu. . . 888

307 KB	Effects of Electrodes with Varying Thickness on Energy Trapping in Thickness-Shear Quartz Resonators J. Yang, H. Xue, H. Fang, Y. Hu, J. Wang, and L. Shen. . . 892