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Micro-stereolithography as a transducer design method.

Ho KS, Bradley RJ, Billson DR, Hutchins DA

School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.

This paper investigates the use of micro-stereolithography, a rapid prototyping technique, in the manufacture of transducers. It is illustrated for the production of electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMATs) coils in both meander-line and spiral configurations. A synthetic aperture focussing technique (SAFT) has been applied to the ultrasonic signals from these devices to reconstruct images in metallic objects.

Published 3 March 2008 in Ultrasonics, 48(1): 1-5.
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