1986 IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, No. 5

Front Matter

Editorial: The President's Speaker
- B. R. McAvoy

Special Issue on Photoacoustics
- David Hutchins, Andrew C. Tam

Pulsed Photoacoustic Materials Characterization
- David Hutchins, Andrew C. Tam

Photothermal Generation of Thermoelastic Waves in Composite Media
- Grover C. Wetsel, Jr.

Surface Acoustic Wave Interactions with Cracks and Slots: A Noncontacting Study Using Lasers
- Jeremy A. Cooper, Ross A. Crosbie, Richard J. Dewhurst, Andrew D. W. McKie, Stuart B. Palmer

On the Excitation of Time Harmonic Cylindrical Surface Acoustic Waves
- Ahmad Safaai-Jazi, Cheng-Kuei Jen, Gerald W. Farnell

Surface Waves Using Laser Generation and Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer Detection
- David A. Hutchins, Frank Hauser, Thomas Goetz

Optical Detection of Ultrasound
- Jean-Pierre Monchalin

Optical Detection of Nanosecond Acoustic Pulses
- Heinz Sontag, Andrew C. Tam

Pyroelectric Detection of Radiation-Induced Thermal Wave Phenomena
- Hans Coufal

Radiofrequency Discharge: A Low-Pressure Contactless Sonic Wave Sensor
- Devendra Kumar, Leo Klasinc, Phillip L. Clancy, Sean P. McGlynn

Thermal Wave Imaging with Thermoacoustic Detection
- Allan Rosencwaig, Jon Opsal

Image Contrast Processes in Thermal and Thermoacoustic Imaging
- John C. Murphy, Jane W. Maclachlan, Leonard C. Aamodt

Thermoacoustic Imaging of Mechanically Deformed Aluminum
Peter Alpern, Gunther Menzel, Rainer Tilgner

X-Ray-Generated Ultrasonic Signals: Characteristics and Imaging Applications
- Wolfgang Sachse, Kwang Yul Kim, Wilbur F. Pierce

Fourier Transform Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Solids
- Barrie S. H. Royce, Jay B. Benziger

Photothermal Beam Deflection Spectroscopy of Complex Systems: Infrared Fourier Transform Band Shapes of Infrared-Absorbing Gases in Presence of Infrared-Absorbing Solids
- Manfred J. D. Low, Claudio Morterra, John M. Khosrofian

The Infrared Examination of Carbons with Beam Deflection Spectroscopy
- Manfred J. D. Low, Claudio Morterra

Time-Delay-Domain and Pseudorandom-Noise Photoacoustic and Photothermal Wave Processes: A Review of the State of the Art
- Andreas Mandelis

Spectrophone Measurements in Sulfur Hexafluoride
- Manaf H. Ali, Henry E. Bass, Hai-Xing Yan

Computer Simulation of the Photoacoustic Signal of Photovoltaic Cells
- Harvey Flaisher, David Cahen

Book Review: Elastic Waves in Solids
- B. A. Auld

Back Matter