July 2005 Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

July 2005

VOLUME 52

NUMBER 7

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

Instructions for Viewing On-Line Transactions and Its Multimedia Contents

Multimedia Example and Icon Legend

Color Pictures , Sound Only , and Movie or Animation with or without Sound



Front Cover Images Front Cover Inside Front Cover Inside Back Cover Table of Contents



143 KB	Information For Contributors. . .1055

172 KB	A Multimedia Example . . .1060 Multimedia-zipped

172 KB	Call for Papers: “Special Issue on Nanoscale Ferroelectrics” . . .1061

172 KB	Call for Papers: “Special Issue on Modeling, Optimization, and Design of Acoustic Devices” . . .1062


AWARDS

172 KB	2004 Rayleigh Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. . .1063

172 KB	2004 Achievement Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. . .1065

172 KB	2004 Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. . .1066

172 KB	2003 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. . .1067

PAPERS

	*Frequency Control*

1 MB	Study of the Excess Noise Associated with Demodulation of Ultra-Short Infrared Pulses E. N. Ivanov, S. A. Diddams, and L. Hollberg. . . 1068

1 MB	Does the Light Shift Drive Frequency Aging in the Rubidium Atomic Clock? J. Camparo. . . 1075

	*Physical Acoustics*

1 MB	Effect of Electromechanical Coupling on Static Deformations and Natural Frequencies J. Jin and R. C. Batra. . . 1079

1 MB	Microwave De-embedding Techniques Applied to Acoustics C. M. Jackson. . . 1094

	*Medical Ultrasound*

1 MB	Acoustic Droplet Vaporization for Temporal and Spatial Control of Tissue Occlusion: A Kidney Study O. D. Kripfgans, C. M. Orifici, P. L. Carson, K. A. Ives, O. P. Eldevik, and J. B. Fowlkes. . . 1101 Multimedia-zipped

1 MB	Evaluation of Ultrasound Tissue Damage Based on Changes in Image Echogenicity in Canine Kidney J. Seo, B. C. Tran, T. L. Hall, J. B. Fowlkes, G. D. Abrams, M. O'Donnell, and C. A. Cain. . . 1111

1 MB	Effects of Contrast Agent Infusion Rates on Thresholds for Tissue Damage Produced by Single Exposures of High-Intensity Ultrasound B. C. Tran, J. Seo, T. L. Hall, J. B. Fowlkes, and C. A. Cain. . . 1121

1 MB	Adaptive Imaging and Spatial Compounding in the Presence of Aberration J. J. Dahl, D. A. Guenther, and G. E. Trahey. . . 1131

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

1 MB	Designed Strength Identification of Concrete by Ultrasonic Signal Processing Based on Artificial Intelligence Techniques S.-D. Kim, D.-H. Shin, L.-M. Lim, J. Lee, and S.-H. Kim. . . 1145

1 MB	Evaluation of Glass Materials by Using the Line-Focus-Beam Ultrasonic-Material-Characterization System J. Kushibiki, M. Arakawa, Y. Ohashi, and R. Okabe. . . 1152

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

1 MB	Analysis of SAW Properties in ZnO/Al_xGa_1-xN/c-Al₂O₃ Structures Y. Chen, N. W. Emanetoglu, G. Saraf, P. Wu, Y. Lu, A. Parekh, V. Merai, E. Udovich, D. Lu, D. S. Lee, E. A. Armour, and M. Pophristic. . . 1161

1 MB	Synthesis of C-Axis-Oriented AlN Thin Films on High-Conducting Layers: Al, Mo, Ti, TiN, and Ni G. F. Iriarte, J. Bjurström, J. Westlinder, F. Engelmark, and I. V. Katardjiev. . . 1170

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

1 MB	A Flexible Piezoelectric Transducer Design for Efficient Generation and Reception of Ultrasonic Lamb Waves A. Gachagan, G. Hayward, and R. Banks. . . 1175

CORRESPONDENCE


477 KB	Different Effects of Microbubble Destruction and Translation in Doppler Measurements P. Tortoli, E. Boni, M. Corsi, M. Arditi, and P. Frinking. . . 1183

477 KB	Suppression of Spurious Lateral Modes in Thickness-Excited FBAR Resonators D. Rosén, J. Bjurström, and I. Katardjiev. . . 1189