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Electroacoustic Transduction

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Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound

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This chapter will describe the six major electroacoustic transduction mechanisms in a unified way using one-dimensional models to derive pairs of linear equations specific to each mechanism as discussed in general in Sect. 1.3. Important characteristics of the transducer types will be summarized and compared to show why piezoelectric and magnetostrictive transducers are best suited for most applications in water.

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Butler, J.L., Sherman, C.H. (2016). Electroacoustic Transduction. In: Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39044-4_2

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