UFFC September Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

September 2006

VOLUME 53

NUMBER 9

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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138 KB	Information For Contributors. . .1545

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LETTERS

317 KB	Analysis of Capacitance Ratio of a Rectangular X-Cut Length-Extensional Mode Quartz Crystal Resonator by Stresses Y. Yokoyama, H. Kawashima, and H. Kanie. . . 1551

189 KB	Ultra-Wideband SAW Correlator R. Brocato, J. Skinner, G. Wouters, J. Wendt, E. Heller, and J. Blaich. . . 1554

132 KB	On the Effect of the Electric Field in the Free Space Surrounding a Finite Piezoelectric Body J. Yang and H. Zhou. . . 1557

84 KB	Propagation of Thickness-Twist Waves in a Quartz Plate with Asymmetric Mass Layers J. Yang and S. Guo. . . 1560

87 KB	An Estimate on the Second-Order Normal Acceleration Sensitivity of a Quartz Resonator J. Yang and S. Guo. . . 1562


PAPERS

	*Frequency Control*

410 KB	Characterization of Light Shift below 10^-15 in a Cesium Fountain Frequency Standard Operated Without the Use of Mechanical Shutters D. G. Enzer and W. M. Klipstein. . . 1564

967 KB	A Straightforward Frequency-Estimation Technique for GPS Carrier-Phase Time Transfer C. Hackman, J. Levine, T. E. Parker, D. Piester, and J. Becker. . . 1570

407 KB	Power Dependence of the Frequency Bias Caused by Spurious Components in the Microwave Spectrum in Atomic Fountains F. Levi, J. H. Shirley, T. P. Heavner, D. H. Yu, and S. R. Jefferts. . . 1584

	*Medical Ultrasound*

2.2 MB	ECG Triggering and Gating for Ultrasonic Small Animal Imaging J.-H. Liu, G.-S. Jeng, T.-K. Wu, and P.-C. Li. . . 1590 Multimedia-zipped

2 MB	Real-Time Adaptive Clutter Rejection Filtering in Color Flow Imaging Using Power Method Iterations L. Løvstakken, S. Bjærum, K. Kristoffersen, R. Haaverstad, and H. Torp. . . 1597

4.5 MB	Characterization of Digital Waveforms Using Thermodynamic Analogs: Detection of Contrast-Targeted Tissue In Vivo M. S. Hughes, J. N. Marsh, H. Zhang, A. K. Woodson, J. S. Allen, E. K. Lacy, C. Carradine, G. M. Lanza, and S. A. Wickline. . . 1609

	*Physical Acoustics*

1 MB	Leaky Lamb Waves of a Piezoelectric Plate Subjected to Conductive Fluid Loading: An Experimental Study Y.-C. Lee and S. H. Kuo. . . 1617

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

1.2 MB	Evaluation Method of TiO₂-SiO₂ Ultra-Low-Expansion Glasses with Periodic Striae Using the LFB Ultrasonic Material Characterization System J.-I. Kushibiki, M. Arakawa, Y. Ohashi, and K. Suzuki. . . 1627

1.7 MB	An Estimate of Biofilm Properties Using an Acoustic Microscope M. S. Good, C. F. Wend, L. J. Bond, J. S. McLean, P. D. Panetta, S. Ahmed, S. L. Crawford, and D. S. Daly. . . 1637

1.5 MB	Adaptive Control with Hysteresis Estimation and Compensation Using RFNN for Piezo-Actuator F.-J. Lin, H.-J. Shieh, P.-K. Huang, and L.-T. Teng. . . 1649

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

359 KB	Systematic Design Approach for Capacitively Coupled Microelectromechanical Filters A. T. Alastalo and V. Kaajakari. . . 1662

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

469 KB	Study on a New Type of Radial Composite Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers in Radial Vibration S. Lin. . . 1671

689 KB	Fabrication of PZT Sol Gel Composite Ultrasonic Transducers Using Batch Fabrication Micromolding G. Pang, M. Sayer, G. R. Lockwood, and M. Watt. . . 1679


CORRESPONDENCE

125 KB	To Simulate Blackbody Radiation Frequency Shift in Cesium Fountain Frequency Standard with CO₂ Laser J. Chen. . . 1685

221 KB	Statistics of the Radio-Frequency Signal Based on K Distribution with Application to Echocardiography O. Bernard, J. D’hooge, and D. Friboulet. . . 1689

179 KB	Antiplane Piezoelectric Surface Waves over a Ceramic Half-Space with an Imperfectly Bonded Layer H. Fan, J. Yang, and L. Xu. . . 1695