Virginia Tech Università di Roma La Sapienza
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Background 2/7 - Wave speeds in dielectric solids

 

 

An efficient energy exchange cannot be obtained as the electrical and mechanical wave propagation occur with different speeds*

 

 

The problem is bypassed if somehow the wave speed of electromagnetic signals is slowed down; how we propose to do it.

 



*As a consequence only lumped piezoelectric transducers are conceivable.

 

Bardati, Barzilai, Gerosa: Elastic wave excitation in piezoelectric slabs, IEEE Transactions su-15, 4, 1968