1976 Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Program

Applications of Elastic Waves to Electronic Devices, Nondestructive Evaluation, and Seismology
- Edgar A. Kraut

NDE: Current Status and Future Development
- M. J. Buckley and R. M. Panos

Optimization of Electromagnetic Transducer Parameters for Maximum Dynamic Range
- C. M. Fortunko and R. B. Thompson

Equivalent-Circuit Analysis of Non-Contacting Electrostatic-Acoustic Transducers for NDE Applications
- H. Shimizu and A. J. Bahr

Design of Permanent Magnet Electromagnetic Acoustic-Wave Transducers (EMATs)
- B. W. Maxfield, M. Linzer, W. B. McConnaughey, and J. K. Hulbert

Use of Pulse Compression Techniques to Improve the Range Resolution of Electromagnetic Surface Wave Transducers
- T. J. Moran

Advanced SAW Electromagnetic Transducer Design
- Thomas L. Szabo

Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization: Correlation Between Biochemical and Ultrasonic Indices of Myocardial Injury
- J. G. Miller, D. E. Yuhas, J. W. Mimbs, S. B. Dierker, L. J. Busse, J. J. Laterra, A. N. Weiss, and B. E. Sobel

Parametric Estimation of the Acoustic Attenuation Coefficient Slope for Soft Tissue
- Roman Kuc, Mischa Schwartz and Lajos Von Micsky

Dispersion of the Ultrasonic Velocities in Human Cortical Bone
- Hyo Sub Yoon and J. Lawrence Katz

Ultrasonic Back-Scattering, A Method for Non-Destructive Structure Testing
- B. Fay

Determination of the Geometry and Mechanical Properties of a Fluid-Filled Cylindrical Bi-Inclusion in an Elastic Solid
- Selcuk Sancar and Wolfgang Sachse

Two Dimensional Display of Spectral Information and Its Application to Diagnostic Medicine
- J. P. Jones, E. Holasek, W. D. Jennings, and E. W. Purnell

Diffraction Characterization of Tissue Using Ultrasound
- Raymond Gramiak, Lloyd P. Hunter, Paul P. K. Lee, Robert M. Lerner, Eric Schenk, and Robert C. Waag

The Application of Acoustic Scattering Parameters to the Characterisation of Human Soft Tissues
- David Nicholas

Intensity Distribution of Shear Acoustic Waves Scattered by a Flat-Bottomed Hole
- J. K. Hulbert and B. W. Maxfield

Ultrasonic Scattering Studies for Failure Prediction
- B. R. Tittmann

Instrumentation for Acoustical Discrimination of Biological Cells
- Tun S. Tan and Marvin Chodorow

Colour Coded Differential Velocity Carotid Bifurcation Scanner
- D. N. White, G. R. Curry

High Resolution Ultrasonic Bloodflow Measurement
- M. Siegel, M. Olinger

Effect of Low Intensity Ultrasound on Nucleic Acid Components
- Atma B. Gupta and Shih Y. Wang

Focussing of Ultrasonic Shockwaves for the Touchless Destruction of Kidneystones
- H. Finkler and E. Hausler

Application of Ultrasonic Leaky Waves in NDE
- Laszlo Adler and Gerald W. Scott

A Substitution Method for the Measurement of Sound Reflection Coefficients for Thin Layers
- K. K. Shung and J. M. Reid

Affects on Front Face Mechanical Impedance of Thickness Mode Piezoelectric Transducers
- Roy W. Martin

A Self-Exciting Ultrasonic Reflection CW Instrument
- Joseph S. Heyman

Ultrasonic Stimulation of Liquid Flow
- Harold V. Fairbanks

Ultrasonic Assist in Dewatering Fine Particles
- Tetsuro Otsuka and Harold Fairbanks

Ultrasonic Experiment in Reducing Smog
- T. Nakane, T. Otsuka and K. Seya

Real Time Ultrasonic Imaging with Shear Waves, Rayleigh Waves, and Lamb Waves
- T. M. Waugh and G. S. Kino

Ultrasonic Flowmeter Optimization Study for Two-Phase Prepolymer
- L. C. Lynnworth, N. E. Pedersen and J. E. Bradshaw

Determination of Powder Metal Density by Ultrasonic Velocity
- Emmanuel P. Papadakis

Application of Trapped Modes in Layered Media to the Testing of Adhesive Bonds
- G. A. Alers and R. B. Thompson

Variational Approach to Rayleigh Wave Reflection and Transmission at a Liquid Filled Crack
- Y. L. Hou and H. L. Bertoni

Pattern Recognition Techniques Applied to Sorting Acoustic Emission Signals
- R. K. Elsley and L. J. Graham

Acoustic Phase Contrast Imaging with Electronic Scanning
- W. Leung, H. J. Shaw, G. S. Kino, D. K. Winslow, and L. T. Zitelli

A Dynamically Focused Annular Array
- R. B. Bernardi, P. J. Peluso, R. J. O'Connell, S. Kellogg and C. Shih

Broadband Wavefront Reconstruction in Two-Dimensional Dispersive Space
- A. K. Booer, J. Chambers, I. M. Mason, P. E. Legasse

Digital Processing of Ultrasound Images
- R. C. Waag, R. Gramiak, P. P. K. Lee, and J. Astheimer

Frequency Swept Imaging of a Strip
- N. H. Farhat, M. S. Chang, J. D. Blackwell, and D. C. K. Chan

ZNO Convolver Development
- P. Borden, B. T. Khuri-Yakub, H. C. Tuan, and G. S. Kino

Holographic Image Scanner by Surface Acoustic Wave on Monolithic MIS Structure
- K. Tsubouchi, S. Minagawa and N. Mikoshiba

Photoenhancement of Surface-Acoustic-Wave Convolution Signal in CdS/LiNbO3 System
- H. Yamamoto, K. Tsubouchi, S. Minagawa, and N. Mikoshiba

Large Time-Bandwidth Acousto-Optic Convolver
- Norman J. Berg, Burton J. Udelson

Approximate Theory of Magnetoelastic Surface Wave Convolution
- William P. Robbins

Bragg Interaction of Piezoelectric Leaky Surface Waves and Optically Guided Light in LiNbO3
- F. Freyre and W. C. Wang

A Surface Wave Interaction Charge Coupled Device
- R. J. Schwartz, S. O. Gaalema, R. L. Gunshor

Charge Transfer in Silicon with Surface Acoustic Waves
- N. A. Papanicolaou and H. C. Lin

Study of Ion Implanted Silicon Surface Using Acoustoelectric Voltage
- M. E. Motamedi, P. Das, R. Bharat

A CdS Bulk Wave Amplifier Piezoelectrically Coupled to a LiNbO3 SAW Delay Line
- J. D. Crowley, T. G. Giallorenzi, and J. F. Weller

Acousto-Optical Multiplexer for Fiber Optical Systems
- S. K. Yao and E. H. Young

An Integrated Optical RF Spectrum Analyzer
- M. C. Hamilton, D. A. Wille, W. J. Miceli

Electrostrictive Mixing in Optical Waveguides
- M. S. Chang, H. H. Verheggen and T. W. Hou

Acousto-Optic Conversion through Fresnel's Law
- Mauri Luukkala

Anisotropic Diffraction of Guided Light by Bulk Acoustic Waves
- M. Gottlieb and G. B. Brandt

Phase Locked SAW Delay Line and Resonator Oscillators
- Thomas R. Joseph

Oscillator Temperature Stability Change Induced by Ion-Implantation
- P. Hartemann

A SAW Oscillator Using Two Acoustic Paths
- Thomas E. Parker and Jay P. Sage

High Frequency Periodic Grating Oscillator
- O. W. Otto and R. D. Weglein

Voltage Controlled Surface Wave Resonator Oscillators
- Lawrence H. Ragan

Theory of Multimoding in SAW Oscillators
- I. Browning and M. F. Lewis

The Design of SAW Resonators on Quartz with Emphasis on Two Ports
- William J. Tanski and Herman Van De Vaart

Scattering Matrix Approach to SAW Resonators
- L. A. Coldren and R. L. Rosenberg

Experimental Performance of Grooved Reflective Array Compressors and Resonators
- C. Lardat

Acoustically Cascaded ASW Resonator - Filters
- P. S. Cross, R. V. Schmidt, and H. A. Haus

Reflection-Dependent Coupling Between Grating Resonators
- R. L. Rosenberg and L. A. Coldren

Multimode SAW Resonators - A Method to Study the Optimum Resonator Design
- W. H. Haydl, B. Dischler, P. Hiesinger

Some Studies on SAW Resonators and Multiple-Mode Filters
- Y. Suzuki, H. Shimizu, M. Takeuchi, K. Nakamura, and A. Yamada

Application of Unidirectional Transducers to Resonator Cavities
- Roger D. Fildes and Bill J. Hunsinger

A Pressure Sensing Acoustic Surface Wave Resonator
- P. Das, C. Lanzl, and H. F. Tiersten

A SAW Filter Using a Reflective Dot Array (RDA)
- Leland P. Solie

Design of Arbitrary Phase and Amplitude Characteristics in SAW Filters
- Timothy J. Boege, Gene Chao and William S. Drummond

Electric Field Interactions Within Finite Arrays and the Design of Withdrawal Weighted SAW Filters at Fundamental and Higher Harmonics
- Kenneth R. Laker, Edward Cohen and Andrew J. Slobodnik, Jr.

Synthesis of Transfer Functions by Parallel-Channel SAW Filter Banks
- Richard La Rosa and Sheldon J. Kerbel

A Triple Transit Suppression Technique
- Kentaro Hanma and Bill J. Hunsinger

Suppression of Bulk Wave in SAW Filter by Metal Over-Lay Design
- N. Wakatsuki and T. Namikata

P-N Diode Memory Correlator
- Ph. Defranould, H. Gautier, C. Maerfeld, P. Tournois

Correlation with the Storage Convolver
- Peter G. Borden, Robert Joly, and Gordon S. Kino

Optical Imaging and Memory Using a Silicon Diode Storage Correlator
- W. C. Wang, K. C. Whang and L. S. Rosenheck

Optical Image Memory in Slow Surface States in Germanium Read Out by Acoustic Surface Wave
- Tadashi Shiosaki, Kenichi Narumiya, Takashi Yamamoto, and Akira Kawabata

Surface Wave Memory-Correlator Using Light Pulse from a GaAs Laser Diode
- S. Takada, K. Hoh, H. Hayakawa, and Y. Tokumaru

The Chirp Transform Signal Processor
- O. W. Otto

A Programmable Radar Pulse Compression Filter Utilizing Chirp Transform Correlation
- H. M. Gerard and O. W. Otto

Real Time Network Analysers Based on SAW Chirp Transform Processors
- M. A. Jack, G. F. Manes, P. M. Grant, C. Atzeni, L. Masotti, J. H. Collins

Acoustic Surface Wave Filter Using Chirp Transform for NDT
- J. J. Tiemann, John D. Young, P. Das

Reflection of Surfaces Waves from Periodic Discontinuities
- C. Dunnrowicz, F. Sandy, and T. Parker

Surface Acoustic Wave Ring Filter
- Frank Sandy and Thomas E. Parker

An ASW-Filter Using Two Fan-Shaped Multistrip Reflective Arrays
- Michel Feldmann and Jeannine Henaff

Field Analysis of Large Weighted Transducers
- R. F. Milsom

Phase-Weighted Metallized Reflective Arrays
- J. T. Godfrey, C. E. Nothnick, J. Schellenberg, R. A. Moore and C. H. Grauling

Low Sidelobe Imcon Pulse Compression
- Tom A. Martin

SAW Resonators Using Low-Loss "Waffle-Iron" Reflectors
- G. L. Matthaei and F. Barman

A Continuously Variable Delay-Line System
- V. S. Dolat and R. C. Williamson

Surface Acoustic Wave Dispersive Filter with Variable, Linear, Frequency - Time Slope
- C. O. Newton and E. G. S. Paige

Fast Coherent Frequency Hopped Waveform Synthesis Using SAW Devices
- J. M. Hannah, P. M. Grant and J. H. Collins

SAW Filters for Frequency Synthesis Applications
- A. J. Slobodnik, Jr. , A. J. Budreau, W. J. Kearns, T. L. Szabo, and G. A. Roberts

Correlation of Long Spread-Spectrum Waveforms Using a SAW Convolver/Recirculation Loop Sub-System
- D. P. Morgan and J. M. Hannah

Signal Processing with CCD and SAW Technologies
- J. D. Collins, W. A. Sciarretta, D. S. Macfall, and M. B. Schulz

Convolvers for DPSK Demodulation of Spread Spectrum Signals
- S. A. Reible, J. H. Cafarella, R. W. Ralston, and E. Stern

Zinc Oxide-on-Silicon Programmable Tapped Correlator
- K. L. Davis

SAW Delay Line with All Spurious 70 dB Down
- P. H. Carr, T. E. Fenstermacher, J. H. Silva, W. J. Kearns, and M. R. Stiglitz

Evaluation of Apodized ID Transducers for Wedge Waveguide Applications
- R. S. Wagers and S. A. Morris

Experimental Analysis of Tie "Optical" Transfer Function of a Disc Delay Line Beamguide
- I. M. Mason, S. Forouhar, E. Papadofrangakis, J. Chambers

SAW Propagation and Mode Excitation in Delta V/V Waveguides: Observation and Analysis
- I. Suemune, T. Moriizumi, and T. Yasuda

On the Influence Of Uniaxial Biasing Stresses on the Velocity of Piezoelectric Surface Waves
- B. K. Sinha and H. F. Tiersten

Modes in Multistrip Couplers
- G. W. Farnell, C. Maerfeld

A Perturbation Analysis of the Attenuation of Surface Waves Due to the Electrical Conductivity of Thin Surface Films and Air Loading
- H. F. Tiersten and B. K. Sinha

Finite Difference Analysis of Piezoelectric Surface Wave Behaviour on Surface Discontinuities. Application to Acoustoelectric Conversion in LiNbO3 Under a Shielding Conductor
- E. Cambiaggio, F. Cuozzo, E. Rivier

Field Theory of a Grooved SAW Reflective Grating
- H. S. Tuan and J. P. Parekh

A Powerful Method to Obtain a General Anaylisis of Lossy Grooves
- J-P. Damiano, E. Rivier

Generation of UHF Surface Acoustic Wave by Transduction from Bulk Wave Using Fine Corrugation Grating on Gaas
- M. Yamanishi, M. Ameda, K. Tsubouchi, T. Kawamura and N. Mikoshiba

Pulse Doppler Processing with a SAW Delay Line
- J. D. Jackson, E. Jones and J. S. Heeks

On the Fabrication Tolerances of Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators, Reflectors, and Interdigital Transducers
- M. E. Field and C. L. Chen

Characteristics of Thin Film CdS Lamb Wave Delay Lines and Observable Strain Effects
- F. J. Bogacki and T. E. Thompson

Temperature Dependence of SAW Velocity for Metal Film on α-Quartz
- Y. Shimizu, A. Terazaki and T. Sakaue

Berlinite, A Temperature Compensated Material for Surface Acoustic Wave Applications
- A. Jhunjhunwala, J. F. Vetelino and J. C. Field

Manufacturing Technology for a SAW Hybrid Tapped Delay Line
- Fred Cho, Mike Adamo, Fred Hickernell, and Larry Yarrington

Performance of SAW Filters on Sulfosalt-Type Substrates
- R. W. Weinert, T. J. Isaacs, F. Halgas, J. T. Godfrey and R. A. Moore

Transverse Electrostatic End Effects in Interdigital Transducers
- Robert S. Wagers

Electrostatic Neighbour- And End Effects in Weighted Surface Wave Transducers
- H. Skeie, A. Ronnekleiv

Accurate IDT Design Using Spectral Weighting
- Thomas L. Szabo, Kenneth R. Laker and Edward Cohen

Key Tradeoffs in SAW Transducer Design and Component Specification
- W. Richard Smith

A Simple "Building Block" Method for the Design of SAW Filters Having Non-Linear Phase Response
- R. L. Miller and A. J. DeVries

Equivalent Circuit Representation of Interacting SAW Transducers
- Richard La Rosa and Sheldon J. Kerbel

High Frequency Pulse Echo Measurements of Ceramics and Thin Layers
- B. T. Khuri-Yakub and G. S. Kino

Characterization of NDE Transducers
- H. R. Tittmann and K. M. Lakin

Ultrasonic Calorimeter for Beam Power Measurements from 1 to 15 Megahertz
- Thomas L. Zapf, Morris E. Harvey, Neil T. Larsen, and Robert E. Stoltenberg

Surface-Wave Inverse Filter for Non-Destructive Testing
- G. L. Kerber, Richard M. White, J. Richard Wright

Acoustic Phase Technique for Measuring Stress Region in Materials
- J. Souquet and G. S. Kino

Detection of Strain by Measurement of the Efficiency of the Magnetostrictive Generation of Ultrasonic Surface Waves
- R. B. Thompson

High Q Microwave Bulk Mode Resonators
- B. R. McAvoy and J. De Klerk

Properties and Applications of Composite Bulk Acoustic Resonators
- S. K. Yao and E. H. Young

Resonances in Flexure-Mode Mechanical Filters
- Y. Tomikawa, D. P. Havens, R. A. Johnson and S. Sugawara

An Analysis of a Torsional Mode Transducer for Electromechanical Filters
- I. Takahashi, N. Yoshida and Y. Ishizaki

Analyses of Two-Dimensional Energy Trapping in Piezoelectric Plates with Rectangular Electrodes
- K. Nakamura and H. Shimizu

Sonics and Ultrasonics: Early History and Applications
- Warren P. Mason

Properties of Elastic Echoes from Powder Materials
- S. Kupca and C. W. Searle

Acoustic Generation of Harmonics
- R. H. Buckholz and J. A. Dantzig

Ultrasonic Attenuation by Impurities in Semiconductors
- N. Mikoshiba, Y. Isawa, and Y. Takeuti

Elastic Properties of Tb.3Dy.7Fe2 Measured Ultrasonically
- G. V. Blessing, A. E. Clark, and H. T. Savage

Surface Acoustic Wave Investigation of Superconducting Films
- Moises Levy, Harry Salvo Jr., David A. Robinson, Kazumi Maki, and Masashi Tachiki

Temperature Dependence of Electron Mean Free Path in Molybdenum and Tungsten from Ultrasonic Measurements
- John A. Rayne, Daryl P. Almond

Interaction of Surface Acoustic Waves with Nickel Thin Films
- Charles Krischer, I-an Feng, Jeffrey B. Block, and Moises Levy

Ultrasonic Fatigue in Copper and Aluminum
- A. Tulyanon and K. Salama

The Exact Fractions Interferometer
- P. L. M. Heydemann

Ultrasonic Attenuation in Ceramics
- B. R. Tittmann, Lloyd Ahlberg, A. G. Evans, R. K. Elsley, and P. T. Khuri-Yakub

Saturation of the Acoustic Attenuation in Borosilicate Glass by Microwaves at Low Temperatures
- W. Arnold, C. Laermans and S. Hunklinger

Elastic Measurements in the Ionic Conductor Na β-Alumina
- M. Barmatz and R. Farrow

Linear Array Acousto-Optic Devices
- E. H. Young and S. K. Yao

Experimental Confirmation of Two-Dimensional Acoustic Processing of Images
- S. T. Kowel, P. G. Kornreich, A. Mahapatra, and B. Emmer

Rayleigh Waves in Strongly Magnetostrictive Materials
- J. P. Parekh and H. T. Savage

FFT-Based Analog Beamforming Processor
- Donald A. Gaubatz

Analysis of Asymmetric Three-Transducer Configuration
- Ronald C. Rosenfeld, Steven H. Arneson, and Thomas F. O'Shea

Aviemore 1976 - The Impact of New Technologies in Signal Processing
- J. B. G. Roberts

Surface Acoustic Wave Devices - Needs and Opportunities
- Leo Young

Ultrasonic Properties of Glass at Ultra Low Temperatures
- Brage Golding

A High-Speed Analog Programmable Tapped Delay Line Utilizing SAW/CCD Technology
- H. M. Gerard

Surface Wave Resonators and Their Use in Narrowband Filters
- William R. Shreve

Tissue Signature Characterization Utilizing Frequency Domain Analysis
- Frederic L. Lizzi, Michael A. Laviola, D. Jackson Coleman

Author Index