Surface-acoustic-wave generation by thermoelasticity
- 26 November 1986
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Vol. 320 (1554) , 315-318
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1986.0120
Abstract
Short laser pulses were used for generating surface acoustic waves (SAWs) on aluminium via the thermoelastic effect. There exists a simple relation between the temporal and spatial pulse width at which the SAWs exhibit maximal amplitude.Keywords
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