A novel technique is presented for simultaneously measuring temperature and crystallinity in situ during the rapid thermal annealing of thin Si films on transparent substrates for active matrix liquid crystal display applications. This technique makes use of acoustic waves to monitor temperature by measuring changes in Lamb wave velocity with temperature. Since this technique is independent of ...

Green’s function, an analytical approach in inhomogeneous linear differential equations, is the impulse response, which is applied for deriving the wave equation solution in composite materials mediums. This paper investigates the study of SH wave’s transmission influenced by concentrated point source disturbance in piezomagnetic material resting over heterogeneous half-space. Green function ap...

We monitored AEs during micro-indentation and pulse laser spallation test of CVD diamond film deposited on sintered SiC, and classified the fracture type by Lamb wave AE analysis. In the indentation test with a Rockwell sphere indenter, we observed Hertz ring cracks and simultaneously detected AEs from Mode-I fracture. Crack types were classified from polarity distribution of the first arrival ...

Wafer-type PZT transducers are very effective as active sensors for Lamb wave studies in elastic plates and in steel bridge girders. It has been demonstrated that a single transducer can be used in pulse-echo mode, transmitting a transient waveform and then detecting return signals echoing from boundaries, irregularities, and flaws such as cracks. We describe here an inductively-coupled system ...