Characterization of Piezoelectric Ceramic Transducer for Accurate Speed-of-Sound Measurement

International Journal of Thermophysics - Tập 31 - Trang 1234-1247 - 2010
H. Lin1, K. A. Gillis2, J. T. Zhang1
1Division of Thermometry and Materials Evaluation, National Institute of Metrology (NIM), Beijing, People’s Republic of China
2Process Measurements Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, USA

Tóm tắt

Piezoelectric ceramics mounted on the endplates of a cylindrical resonator were used as the source and detector for speed-of-sound measurements. The perturbations of the longitudinal gas modes of the cavity due to the compliance of the diaphragms (10 mm diameter, 0.3 mm thick) and the attached transducers were estimated from first-order perturbation theory. The fractional shift of the resonance frequencies in argon caused by the source and detector was 0.03 × 10−6 at 0.1 MPa and 273.16 K. The high signal-to-noise ratio (up to 1 × 104 with a 6 s integration time) that was obtained with these transducers makes them suitable for acoustic thermometry. The heat dissipation in the source transducer was measured to be only 0.7 μW at the working voltage (7 V) and frequency (1 kHz).

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