IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

May 1997 Volume 44, Number 3

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Special Issue on Finite Element Applications

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS

Introduction
R. Lerch... 537

Modeling of Piezoelectric Sensor Fidelity
V. V. Varadan, J. Kim, and V. K. Varadan... 538

Finite Elements for Piezoelectric Vibrations with Open Electric Boundaries
E. E. Antonova and P. P. Silvester... 548

Finite Element Simulation and Visualization of Leaky Rayleigh Waves for Ultrasonic NDE
T. Xue, W. Lord, and S. Udpa... 557

Design of 1-3 Piezocomposite Hydrophones Using Finite Element Analysis
J. Bennett and G. Hayward... 565

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS

Deaberration of Incoherent Wavefront Distortion: An Approach Toward Inverse Filtering
Q. Zhu and B. Steinberg... 575

SAW Ring Filters with Insertion Loss of 1 dB
S. A. Dobershtein and V. A. Malyukhov... 590

Composite Piezoelectric Transducer with Truncated Conical Endcaps "Cymbal"
A. Dogan, K. Uchino, and R. E. Newnham... 597

A Stochastic Model of the Time-of-Flight Noise in Airborne Sonar Ranging Systems
A. M. Sabatini... 606

Statistical Modeling for the Optimal Deposition of Sputtered Piezoelectric Films
F. J. Hickernell, R.-X. Yue, and F. S. Hickernell... 615

Fabrication of High Sensitivity ZnO Thin Film Ultrasonic Devices by Electrochemical Etch Techniques
C. C. Chang and Y. E. Chen ... 624

Incorporating Data from a Primary Frequency Standard Into a Time Scale
J. Levine... 629

A Regularization Approach for the Determination of the Time of Flight Distribution in the Cesium Beam Standards
A. Makdissi and E. de Clercq... 637

Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Lateral Modes in 1-3 Piezocomposites
D. Certon, O. Casula, F. Patat, and D. Royer ... 643

A Coupling-of-Modes Approach to the Analysis of STW Devices
V. L. Strashilov, K. D. Djordjev, B. I. Boyanov, and I. D. Avramov ... 652

Influence of Step-like Portions on the Surface of ZnO/Glass SAW FIlters on Their Frequency Characteristics
M. Kadota and C. Kondoh... 658

Comparison of Cepstrum-Based Methods for Radial Blind Deconvolution of Ultrasound Images
T. Taxt... 666

RF Sputtered PLZT Thin Film on Pt/Ti Electrode
D. X. Lu, E.Y.B. Pun, E.M.W. Wong, P. S. Chung, and Z. Y. Lee... 675

Determination of Elastic Constants by Time-Resolved Line-Focus Acoustic Microscopy
W. Lei and J. D. Achenbach... 681

Shear-Horizontal Acoustic Wave Storage in Polycrystalline Ferrite
V. Ermolov, J. Stor-Pellinen, and M. Luukkala... 688

Impact of New Clock Technologies on the Stability and Accuracy of the International Atomic Time TAI
C. Thomas... 693

Improved Estimation of Phase Aberration Profiles
S. Krishnan, K. W. Rigby, and M. O'Donnell... 701

Synthetic Phased Arrays for Intraluminal Imaging of Coronary Arteries
M. O'Donnell, M. J. Eberle, D. N. Stephens, J. L. Litzza, K. San Vicente, and B. M. Shapo... 714

CORRESPONDENCE

Observation of Ferrobielastic Twinning in GaPO₄ Under Uniaxial Stress
G. D. Mansfield, P. L. Guzzo, J.-J. Boy, and O. V. Zvereva ... 722