TUFFC April 2006 Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

April 2006

VOLUME 53

NUMBER 4

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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165 KB	Information For Contributors. . .665

334 KB	A Multimedia Example . . .670 Multimedia-zipped

172 KB	Call for Papers: Special Issue on High Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging in Industrial, Material, and Biomaterial Applications . . .671

28 KB	Call for Papers: 2006 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium . . .672



PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

562 KB	Single Crystals and Nonlinear Process for Outstanding Vibration-Powered Electrical Generators A. Badel, A. Benayad, E. Lefeuvre, L. Lebrun, C. Richard, and D. Guyomar. . . 673

778 KB	Modeling of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Integrated Piezoelectric Structures under Residual Stress M. Lematre, G. Feuillard, T. Delaunay, and M. Lethiecq. . . 685

1.6 MB	Vibration of Micromachined Circular Piezoelectric Diaphragms E. Hong, S. Trolier-McKinstry, R. Smith, S. V. Krishnaswamy, and C. B. Freidhoff. . . 697

	*Frequency Control*

803 KB	Phase-Noise Reduction in Surface Wave Oscillators by Using Nonlinear Sustaining Amplifiers I. D. Avramov. . . 707

	*Medical Ultrasound*

923 KB	Sol-Gel Transition in Agar-Gelatin Mixtures Studied with Transient Elastography J.-L. Gennisson and G. Cloutier. . . 716 Multimedia-zipped

796 KB	Modeling and Phantom Studies of Ultrasonic Wall Shear Rate Measurements Using Coded Pulse Excitation J. K. Tsou, J. Liu, and M. F. Insana. . . 724

2 MB	Noise Reduction for Doppler Ultrasound Signal Based on the Adapted Local Cosine Transform and the Garrote Thresholding Method X. Wang, Y. Shen, and Z. Liu. . . 735

	*Physical Acoustics*

541 KB	Evaluation of the Effect of Preload Force on Resonance Frequencies for a Traveling Wave Ultrasonic Motor S. Pirrotta, R. Sinatra, and A. Meschini. . . 746

880 KB	Laser Ultrasound Measurement and Finite-Element Simulation on the Dispersion Behaviors of Acoustic Waves Propagating Along Wedges with Bilinear Cross Sections C.-H. Yang and C.-Z. Tsen. . . 754

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

286 KB	Measurement of Low-Frequency Ultrasonic Wave in Water Using an Acoustic Fiber Sensor T. Sakoda and Y. Sonoda. . . 761

1.2 MB	The Application of Time-Frequency Analysis to the Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Testing of Concrete J. R. Berriman, D. A. Hutchins, A. Neild, T. H. Gan, and P. Purnell. . . 768

819 KB	On the Development and Testing of a Guided Ultrasonic Wave Array for Structural Integrity Monitoring P. Fromme, P. D. Wilcox, M. J. S. Lowe, and P. Cawley. . . 777

415 KB	DNA Immobilization and SAW Response in ZnO Nanotips Grown on LiNbO₃ Substrates Z. Zhang, N. Emanetoglu, G. Saraf, Y. Chen, P. Wu, J. Zhong, Y. Lu, J. Chen, O. Mirochnitchenko, and M. Inouye. . . 786

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

2 MB	Ultramultiple Roundtrips of Surface Acoustic Wave on Sphere Realizing Innovation of Gas Sensors K. Yamanaka, S. Ishikawa, N. Nakaso, N. Takeda, D. Y. Sim, T. Mihara, A. Mizukami, I. Satoh, S. Akao, and Y. Tsukahara. . . 793

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

641 KB	New Equivalent Lumped Electrical Circuit for Piezoelectric Transformers P. Gonnard, P. M. Schmitt, and M. Brissaud. . . 802


ERRATA

487 KB	High Power Universal Piezoelectric Transformer S. Priya, H.Kim, S. Ural, and K. Uchino. . . 810